Many don’t know about Ted Nelson and his Xanadu vision. He hated the web, as we know it, because it missed so much.
“HTML is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT [with Xanadu]— ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can’t follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.”
He was accused of vaporware because he couldn’t deliver on the big vision himself. Had open source existed then, where might we be now?
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