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Discussion on: What great software invention or idea never gained adoption?

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Rafael de Azevedo • Edited

Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu is probably the archetypal revolutionary software idea that didn’t go forth: ingenious abstractions no one understood because they succeeded in breaking many paradigms at once.

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Wayne Smallman

I first heard about Xanadu while at college eons ago, and then it surfaced again while doing research for a project I'm working on.