From the Zed Blog: Ted Nelson specified the docuverse sixty years ago. The technology finally arrived, and so did its native users.
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 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.
The lessons of Xanadu
“The longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry”
Varun on Twitter / X
Hyperspace: The Agentic OS Apple Should Have BuiltOn December 19th, 2024, we announced the world’s first Agentic Browser. What followed was a movement — a new category was born which led to many early products in this space and recently the hundreds of people lining up outside… pic.twitter.com/lws2rMNmel— Varun (@varun_mathur) July 18, 2025
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.
Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …
Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal
There weren’t a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday’s Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they’ve struck with SpaceX/xAI to use …
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.)
The workbench is the agent - Sensemaker
NVIDIA, xAI, and Nokia show the agent story moving from chat surfaces to toolboxes, execution loops, and operational guardrails.
xAI Hires Cursor's Milich and Ginsberg After Musk Says Company 'Was Not Built Right' — Silicon Report
The move comes as 10 of 12 xAI co-founders have departed since 2023, forcing Musk to rebuild the AI coding team while Tesla and SpaceX have committed $2...
Introducing Delta
From the Zed Blog: A multiplayer environment for coding with agents, from the creators of Zed.
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
