GoKawiilGwern revisits Project Xanadu's collapse at a 50th-anniversary gathering for Ted Nelson's manifesto
At a San Francisco party marking 50 years since Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines, attendees examined memorabilia and vintage machines running old Xanadu hypertext software, with a former Autodesk-era Xanadu programmer sharing firsthand stories. The event became an occasion for reflecting on why Xanadu, despite its influential vision of hypermedia, never became a practical, widely used system.