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Project Xanadu

Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it an improvement over the World Wide Web, with mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents."

Wired magazine published an article called "The Curse of Xanadu", calling Project Xanadu "the longest-running vaporware story in the history of the computer industry". The first attempt at implementation began in 1960, but it was not until 1998 that an—incomplete—implementation was released. A version described as "a working deliverable", OpenXanadu, was made available in 2014.

History

Nelson's vision was for a "digital repository scheme for world-wide electronic publishing". Nelson states that the idea began in 1960, when he was a student at Harvard University. He proposed a machine-language program which would store and display documents, together with the ability to perform edits. This was different from a word processor (which was not invented yet) in that the functionality would have included visual comparisons of different versions of the document, a concept Nelson would later call "intercomparison".

Xanadu

Xanadu may refer to:

  • Xanadu, China or Shangdu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan empire
  • "Kubla Khan", a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which popularised the name Xanadu for Shangdu
  • Places

  • Xi'an, China, formerly Chang'an, which was often the dynastic capital from the Han to Tang Dynasties.
  • Xanadu (Titan), an enigmatic bright feature on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan
  • Xanadu 2.0, the nickname of Bill Gates' futuristic private estate
  • Xanadu Beach Resort & Marina in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas
  • Xanadu House, a series of experimental homes built to showcase computers and automation in the home
  • Xanadu Meadowlands or American Dream Meadowlands, a proposed mall in New Jersey, US
  • Madrid Xanadú, a large shopping mall and entertainment center in Spain
  • Art, entertainment, and media

  • Xanadu (film), a 1980 film starring Olivia Newton-John
  • Xanadu (musical), a Broadway musical based on the film
  • Xanadu (Citizen Kane), a mansion in the fictional biographical film Citizen Kane (1941)
  • Xanadu (video game)

    Xanadu (ザナドゥ Zanadu), also known as Xanadu: Dragon Slayer II, is an action role-playing game developed by Nihon Falcom and released in 1985 for the PC-8801, X1, PC-8001, PC-9801, FM-7 and MSX computers. Enhanced remakes were later released for the Sega Saturn, PC-9801 and Windows platforms. It is the second in the Dragon Slayer series, preceded by Dragon Slayer and followed by Dragon Slayer Jr: Romancia, which, as most games in the Dragon Slayer series, have very little relation with each other.

    Xanadu is notable for several reasons, including its sales record for computer games in Japan with over 400,000 copies sold there in 1985. It was also one of the foundations of the RPG genre, particularly the action RPG subgenre, featuring real-time action combat combined with full-fledged character statistics, innovative gameplay systems such as the Karma meter and individual experience for equipped items, and platform game elements combined with the dungeon crawl gameplay of its predecessor. It also had towns to explore and introduced equipment that change the player character's visible appearance, food that is consumed slowly over time and essential for keeping the player character alive, and magic used to attack enemies from a distance. The following year saw the release of Xanadu Scenario II, an early example of an expansion pack.

    Xanadu (film)

    Xanadu is a 1980 American romantic musical fantasy film written by Richard Christian Danus and Marc Reid Rubel and directed by Robert Greenwald. The title is a reference to the nightclub in the film, which takes its name from Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China. This city appears in Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem that is quoted in the film. The film's plot was inspired by 1947's Down to Earth.

    Xanadu stars Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, and Gene Kelly, and features music by Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra, Cliff Richard, and The Tubes. The film also features animation by Don Bluth.

    A box office flop, Xanadu earned mixed to negative critical reviews and was an inspiration for the creation of the Golden Raspberry Awards to memorialize the worst films of the year. Despite the lacklustre performance of the film, the soundtrack album became a huge commercial success around the world, and was certified double platinum in the United States. The song "Magic" was a U.S. number one hit for Newton-John, and the title track (by Newton-John and ELO) reached number one in the UK and several other countries around the world.

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