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Ted Nelson's Xanadu is what comes to mind immediately for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu The Bu

• sebmellen 5y ago
  Aha! But had the Xanadu folks showed up every day, they might have created something more than vaporware, and people might've used their software! From the linked Wikipedia article: > Wired magazine published an article called "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.
  • AndrewKemendo 5y ago
    Sarcasm? Ted Nelson is pretty consistent here and has put thousands of hours into it.