URLNet - Project Xanadu

Ted Nelson, who studied under the two cult pioneers Vannevar Bush and John C. Lilly, proposed a giant electronic library in satellites in stationary orbit which could be used at any terminal on Earth via radio or phone lines. He called this concept that would make his database "Xanadu." The Mongolian utopia where all written cultures would never be lost. This was Xanadu. It was the concept of Hypertext that would make it real, and Ted Nelson's name would go down in history as its originator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu https://www.xanadu.net/ (edited)

Project Xanadu

Project Xanadu ( ZAN-ə-doo) was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu declared it superior to the World Wide Web, with the mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with one-way ever...