“The longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry”
Project Xanadu
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 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.
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: 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.)
Project Xanadu®
"Xanadu®" and the Eternal-Flaming-X logo are registered trademarks of Project Xanadu.
triumph of the nerds
Weathering Software Winter
The International Research Conference in the History of Computing at Los Alamos, 1976
Stuart K. Card and Thomas P. Moran, "User Technology—From Pointing to Pondering"
Geek Lite on Twitter / X
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History of The Graphical User Interface (GUI): A Wonderful Curse
Composure
On yet another foray into the list of opinions I have that I’m sure are making me progressively more unemployable by the day, I asked some people on the internet: who is doing interesting work on software composability these days and where do I find them?
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Aether OS Alpha Launch
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