New Game in Town

TheTedNelson
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Ted Nelson demonstrates a working prototype of Xanadu in 2016, presenting what he calls usable and open Xanadocuments: documents with parallel, side-by-side connections and transclusion rather than one-way web links. It is Nelson's own pitch for his long-running alternative to the web's document model.

HN submits it as the latest look at Xanadu, though one commenter reads the demo's focus on issues like paying for remixed copyrighted content as a sign it is far from real-world use.

“indicates that it's not going to be in widespread production use anytime soon”
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@enkiv22016 · in “New Game in Town (2016 Xanadu Demo)”
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@tudorw2016 · in “New Game in Town – Ted Nelson Presenting Usable and Open Xanadocuments”
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@azeirah2016 · in “Ted Nelson presents a working prototype version of Xanadu”
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@firasd2017 · in “Xanadu”
It's a visionary hypertext project that doesn't really work yet, but the people behind it are happy to dispense snarky quotes about the how the web we all use is a poor substitute because it's a “bizarre structure created by arbitrary initiatives of varied people and it has a terrible programming language”. link Looks like this is their latest demo: ▶ this video The fact that they seem to be so interested in things like "who pays when you mix and match copyrighted content?" instead of "how do we get people to try out our system?" indicates that it's not going to be in widespread production use anytime soon...
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