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."

  1. ​Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never Was​
  2. ​Designing Synced Blocks​