>[!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]]