Wired magazine published an article entitled "The Curse of Xanadu", calling Project Xanadu "the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry".[3] The first attempt at implementation began in 1960, but it was not until 1998 that an incomplete implementation was released. A version described as "a working deliverable", OpenXanadu, was made available in 2014.
The lessons of Xanadu
“The longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry”
The Xanadu Dream
Xanadu, a global hypertext publishing system, is the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry. It has been in development for more than 30 years. This long gestation period may not put it in the same category as the Great Wall of China, which was under
The Xanadu Dream
Xanadu, a global hypertext publishing system, is the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry. It has been in development for more than 30 years. This long gestation period may not put it in the same category as the Great Wall of China, which was under
The Curse of Xanadu
It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form.
The Curse of Xanadu
It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form.
Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight
Retrospective on Project Xanadu’s success and failure: a lack of design iteration, meaningful use-cases, or practicality stopped a valuable vision from maturing into something useful. (And contrasted with my approach.)
Xanadu Was Waiting for Agents
From the Zed Blog: Ted Nelson specified the docuverse sixty years ago. The technology finally arrived, and so did its native users.
Project Xanadu®
"Xanadu®" and the Eternal-Flaming-X logo are registered trademarks of Project Xanadu.
Designing for failure
Nobody starts a free-software project hoping that it will fail, so it is a rare project indeed [...]
Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 1 of 2
Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
Scott Jenson has been working on user interfaces (UIs) and user experience (UX) for many years [...]
Appendix:Xanadu - AT Protocol Paper Errata and Details
A description of known problems in Bluesky PBC's paper, "Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable Decentralized Social Media", as well as notes on terminology changes and how Bluesky's implementation differs from that described in the paper.
The 800-Millisecond Problem
A blog about my journey through Mozilla,Open Source Contribution, Virtual,Augmented,Mixed Reality, Security,Hackathon and in general technology.
Stuart K. Card and Thomas P. Moran, "User Technology—From Pointing to Pondering"
wait a second, it just dawned on me that atproto delivers on most of the project xanadu concepts that don't require a shit ton of lsd to understand?? minus payments which is what sunk xanadu anyway. fun cs lore rabbit hole for the uninitiated! xanadu.net
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