The Curse of Xanadu
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive//3.06/xanadu.html Dismissive article by Gary Wolf on Ted Nelson and the history of Xanadu project. [Wired] (none)It was the most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. Instead, it sucked Nelson and his intrepid band of true believers into what became the Nelson, Ted Feature
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By Howard Rheingold. Online copy of well known 1985 book on the invention of modern computing; this chapter on Ted Nelson, Computer Lib, hypertext, Xanadu. Newer (c)2000 edition of the book is out, with follow-up interviews.
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Story on Ted Nelson announcing ZigZag, getting Yuri Rubinsky Memorial Web Award for his contribution to hypertext. [Wired News]
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