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 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.
Xerox Star User Interface (1982) 1 of 2
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"
The Weird Death Of User Interfaces
Xerox Cedar "Viewers Window Package" 1987
I just want to add a little bit about the Xerox Cedar "Viewers Window Package" environment. Cedar is a programming language based on Mesa, with some similarities to Smalltalk.
paint: a timeline — Kristen Roos
This timeline is the result of researching the origins of digital paint and draw software, and the tools that were developed to allow for hand manipulation (versus plotter drawn) drawing and painting - the mouse, light pen & drawing tablet. If we look at the software that has become commonplace today (such as adobe photoshop), which allows for painting, animation and photo manipulation in one, we can trace the roots of this software to the University and Corporate Labs that housed large computers with advanced capabilities for their time - MIT Lincoln Labs & Radiation Labs, DARPA & the Augmented Research Centre (ARC), Bell Labs, NYIT’s Computer Graphics Lab, Xerox Palo Alto Research Centre (Xerox PARC), NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs (JPL). The artistic collaborations that grew out of these labs fueled the advent of Computer Graphics, Computer Art and Video Art from the 1960's to the 1990's.
Weathering Software Winter
In 24 hours, Aether OS Alpha goes live, and the era of atmospheric computing truly begins. See you then! smokesignal.events/did:plc:vcq34cz2s3iicekpjob5v…
Aether OS Alpha Launch
smokesignal.eventswait 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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