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For those unfamiliar with Xanadu or Ted Nelson, http://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ http://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ is a great read. People who criticize
by joelg 11y ago
For those unfamiliar with Xanadu or Ted Nelson, http://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ http://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ is a great read. People who criticize it for being the "largest piece of vaporware in history" are technically correct, but rarely understand its potential or scope because we're so used to the current paradigm that it's hard to picture anything being better than "the way it is".
- jacquesm 11y agoTed Nelson made only one mistake: he waited too long to release it so the web could steal both his thunder and the market right out from under him. If he'd released it when it was first close to usable it would have overran the world, the web as we know it today would have never gotten off the ground. The structures in Xanadu are extremely powerful and well thought out but the web is 'good enough' and so here we are today. The best you can do is to take the lessons and interesting bits from Xanadu and evaluate whether or not there is a way to graft them onto the web. There is an interesting parallel between Gnu (the OS) and Linux on the one hand the Xanadu and the WWW on the other.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoIf by "great read", you mean "libelous and largely erroneous", then yes: http://xanadu.com.au/ararat http://xanadu.com.au/ararat