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Xanadu: The Forgotten Hypertext

Posted by timothy on from the man-with-the-ultimate-demo dept.

wikinerd writes "Xanadu, a project started in the 1960s to create a deep-linked hypertext infrastructure with xanalogical structures, is still alive, although largely forgotten due to the emergence of the Web."

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  1. Ted Nelson is brilliant but insane. by Chip+Salzenberg · · Score: 5, Insightful
    There will never be one knowledge network with one administrative body. That's what Xanadu was supposed to be.

    I do wish I had editors that kept historical trees instead of a single undo chain, though.

  2. Re:Unable to connect by theGreater · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google Cache works just fine.

    For those afraid to click: http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:GAPPZoUBZYgJ: xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html+xuDation. html&hl=en

    -theGreater.

  3. links galore by ink_polaroid · · Score: 5, Informative

    While they're putting out the fire in whatever server they were running, you can read this,a 27-page Wired article from 1995.

    Also check this, that, and the other.