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Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space

photonhunter · demo · Watch on YouTube

GUI, HCI & interface historyHistory of computing

What it is

Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space, his software for representing hypertext in three-dimensional space with linked, referenced content fragments.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as the shortest way to grasp Nelson's idea of referential content and how the web could have been different.

  • 5 people recommended it
  • 5 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2011, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Too many great talks to mention, but if I had to pick one it would be Ted Nelson's few minutes of demonstration of Xanadu.”

    Short Nelson demo conveying the deep idea of referential content

    Keyframe, 2016-10 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?”

  2. “here's Ted Nelson with a short demo of Xanadu as it existed in 2008”

    Short demo of Xanadu as it existed in 2008.

    sp332, 2011-04 · Recommendation · in “Pictures of the first GUIs from Xerox”

  3. “this is a great supplement for this”

    Close-up demo of Xanadu Space.

    michaelbuddy, 2013-02 · Recommendation · in “Content Management by Redefining the Document”

  4. “It's really interesting to see”

    Ted Nelson demonstrates his alternative computing paradigm with content history

    gum_ina_package, 2014-01 · Recommendation · in “Ted Nelson: It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC”

  5. “let me link you to a guy to whom it was obvious the web browsers stink decades ago.”

    Nelson saw decades ago that web browsers were the wrong foundation

    alexashka, 2018-04 · Recommendation · in “Gradual Programming”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: ted nelson, xanadu, hypertext, transclusion, history of computing

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