Project Xanadu An Idea by Ted Nelson Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it an improvement over the World Wide Web, with the mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivializes our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents." Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never WasDesigning Synced Blocks hypermediawww
Each ruler commissioned his own garden The Mughuls of India developed a tradition where each ruler commissioned his own garden. Then, "At the owner's death the pavilion, generally placed in the center of the site, became the mausoleum, and the whole complex passed into the care of holy men." Lisa Heschong, Thermal Delight in Architecture Poems of an Indian summerThe Abode of Fancy deathgardens