>[!abstract]
>Project Xanadu was the first [[hypertext]] project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it superior to the World Wide Web, with the mission statement: "*Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivializes our original hypertext model with one-way ever-breaking links and no management of version or contents*" (Wikipedia, 2025).
>[!related]
>- **North** (upstream): [[Hypertext]]
>- **West** (similar): [[Memex]]
>- **East** (different): [[World Wide Web]] (linear, one-way links, no enforced versioning or transclusion)
>- **South** (downstream): [[Transclusion]]