The ultimate theoretical Hyper Text universe. Founded 1960 by Ted Nelson.

http://xanadu.com/

Since 1960, we have fought for a world of deep electronic documents-- with side-by-side intercomparison and frictionless re-use of copyrighted material. We have an exact and simple structure. The Xanadu model handles automatic version management and rights management through deep connection (Intertwingular Ity).

Someday it may ship. [OK], bits of it have shipped (ZigZag), and some are close to shipping. But I'm afraid it's the ship that's already sailed. The Web has already won, in the ultimate proof of Worse Is Better.

http://xanadu.com/permapub/

The snarky history by Gary Wolf: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.06/xanadu.html

Xanadu was owned by Auto Desk for awhile under John Walker.

"The Open Society and its Media" by Mark Miller, [Dean Tribble], [Ravi Pandya], and Marc Stiegler.

see also http://www.abora.org/

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