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[_] Anonymous 08/07/15(Fri)19:28:26 No.2869225
>> [_] Anonymous 08/07/15(Fri)19:30:32 No.2869228
rip xanadu
never forget
pray for nelson
>> [_] Anonymous 08/07/15(Fri)19:32:14 No.2869230
>>2869225
saved
>> [_] Anonymous 08/07/15(Fri)19:50:00 No.2869234
>>2869228
What?
>> [_] Anonymous 08/07/15(Fri)21:15:18 No.2869303
>>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.
