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[_] Anonymous 08/07/15(Fri)19:28:26 No.

>> [_] Anonymous 08/07/15(Fri)19:30:32 No.

  rip xanadu
  never forget
  pray for nelson

>> [_] Anonymous 08/07/15(Fri)19:32:14 No.

  >>2869225
  saved

>> [_] Anonymous 08/07/15(Fri)19:50:00 No.

  >>2869228
  What?

>> [_] Anonymous 08/07/15(Fri)21:15:18 No.

  >>2869234
  Oh you're in for a treat.
  If you're into anime, watch Serial Experiments Lain, you'll learn everything you need to know,
  plus you'd have some appreciation for Vannevar Bush and Ted Nelson.

  In 1945, Vannevar envisioned the Memex, a system which could contain a lot of information and
  research, linked like the brain. Available to both humans and other machines, the memex could
  feed information to us through different means, making us more productive and smarter.
  In 1960, Ted Nelson, an influential media guy, thought of a possible implementation of the Memex
  concept. He dubbed it Project Xanadu, and it was the first hypertext implementation ever. In
  fact, Ted Nelson coined the term "hypertext" back in 1963.

  Think of HTML today - one-way links, 404s, no source tracking and no version control. Xanadu was
  Nelson's answer to all of this before the term HTML was even coined, let alone implemented in
  1993. Nelson just wasn't a very good programmer, and the project never saw a release before 2014,
  and that's a bastardised version at that.
  If Ted Nelson could have released Project Xanadu before HTML, the internet would've been much,
  much richer on content and our way of interacting with computers would've likely changed a lot.

  We say that a Nelsonian internet would be a utopian, perfect world, because of its vast
  superiority to simple markup like HTML.