The Real Story of the World Wide Web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDPhEvKuRY

Come on... Ted Nelson deserves much more views! maybe Project Xanadu is vaporware, but he is a really smart old man..
On the other side you have timbl who is selling the web to Hollywood lobbies. We should start all this cyberspace and hypertext shit again.

>>12
Vulnerabilities killed it. It was used to spread malware. Now we have GTK+, and other toolkits.

>>14
RESTful hyperlinks. An atomic hyperlink is unique, and self-identifying from the reference file and source file. Self-healing hyperlinks are resistant to failures and can mitigate relinking: e.g. relinking in case a server containing the file fails or file gets moved, etc. Ted calls it transclusion, but I bring the ACID properties to it.

You should read his wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Nelson