melvincarvalho on Nostr: Yes, I know Ted Nelson. I helped orange pill him. He's at internet archive now. ...

Yes, I know Ted Nelson. I helped orange pill him. He's at internet archive now. Xanadu is a neat system, but lacks the same network effect of the web. So you can spend your time making a big difference to a small number of people, or making a small difference to a large number of people. There's actually the story of when Tim bought Ted's book "Literary Machines", and could not pay for it because he could not cash a check in swiss francs. I eventually paid Ted in BTC to show it could be one. It would be nice to add some xanadu ideas to the web such as transclusion. In fact the web operating system that we are working on does much of this now.