Editing Project Xanadu (section)

{{Short description|First hypertext project, founded in 1960}}
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'''Project Xanadu''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|z|æ|n|ə|d|uː}} {{respell|ZAN|ə|doo}})<ref>{{cite video|title=Director's Cut: Ted Nelson on Hypertext, Douglas Englebart, Xanadu and More|date=February 14, 2018|publisher=[[IEEE Spectrum]]|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8&t=462 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/i67rQdHuO-8| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|time=7:43|via=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref> was the first [[hypertext]] project, founded in 1960 by [[Ted Nelson]]. Administrators of Project Xanadu have 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-breaking links and no management of version or contents."<ref>[http://xanadu.com/ Project homepage]</ref>

''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine published an article entitled "The Curse of Xanadu", calling Project Xanadu "the longest-running [[vaporware]] story in the history of the computer industry".<ref name="WiredCurse">{{cite magazine |author=Gary Wolf |date=June 1995 |title=The Curse of Xanadu |url=https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/ |magazine=[[WIRED]] |volume=3 |issue=6}}|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026021059/https://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/|archive-date=October 26, 2015|url-status=live</ref> 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.