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The internet project that took 50 years to arrive
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Ted Nelson invented the concept of hypertext in the sixties but hated the World Wide Web so much he spent half a century building a beautifully overcomplicated alternative. Project Xanadu was supposed to be a utopian network with unbreakable two-way links and built-in micropayments. Instead, it became the tech world's most notorious vaporware, taking over fifty years to finally release a working prototype.
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