The Real Story of the World Wide Web

Comments are disabled for this video.

“Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong" [note 1]

Nelson's hatred of conventional structure made him difficult to educate. Bored and disgusted by school, he once plotted to stab his seventh-grade teacher with a sharpened screwdriver, but lost his nerve at the last minute and instead walked out of the classroom, never to return. On his long walk home, he came up with the four maxims that have guided his life: most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong. Nelson loves these maxims and repeats them often. They lead him to sympathize, in every discussion, with the rejected idea and the discounted option.

The IP address that you are currently using has been blocked because it is believed to be an open proxy.

It's all what >>11,15 said.

Original 17 rules
  Every Xanadu server is uniquely and securely identified.
  Every Xanadu server can be operated independently or in a network.
  Every user is uniquely and securely identified.
  Every user can search, retrieve, create and store documents.
  Every document can consist of any number of parts each of which may be of any data type.
  Every document can contain links of any type including virtual copies ("transclusions") to any other document in the system accessible to its owner.
  Links are visible and can be followed from all endpoints.
  Permission to link to a document is explicitly granted by the act of publication.
  Every document can contain a royalty mechanism at any desired degree of granularity to ensure payment on any portion accessed, including virtual copies ("transclusions") of all or part of the document.
  Every document is uniquely and securely identified.
  Every document can have secure access controls.
  Every document can be rapidly searched, stored and retrieved without user knowledge of where it is physically stored.
  Every document is automatically moved to physical storage appropriate to its frequency of access from any given location.
  Every document is automatically stored redundantly to maintain availability even in case of a disaster.
  Every Xanadu service provider can charge their users at any rate they choose for the storage, retrieval and publishing of documents.
  Every transaction is secure and auditable only by the parties to that transaction.
  The Xanadu client-server communication protocol is an openly published standard. Third-party software development and integration is encouraged.[5]

It was claimed that "Xanadu is completely obsolete as a system since it doesn't take into account such fundamental things as decentralization and authentication. Xanadu shows its decrepitude by being incompatible with PeerToPeer and never mentioning cryptography."