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Re:OpenXanadu by aaaaaaaaaaab on Sunday July 24, 2022 @07:10PM (#32218744)
>It's the primary influence over all hypertext things, including HTML

Is it? Was Tim Berners-Lee influences by Project Xanadu? Was he aware at all?

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Re:OpenXanadu by LeonB on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:30PM (#32219619)
He was certainly influenced by Ted Nelson and I’d be shocked if he had no awareness of this. He’d have to have been completely naive about the field he was working in, and I don’t think he was naive.
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Re:OpenXanadu by tannhaeuser on Monday July 25, 2022 @02:38AM (#32221206)
You can check yourself by reading TBL's first WWW site [1].

In essence, Ted Nelson (and Vannevar Bush) are referenced in the "History" section, and also for coining the term "Hypertext", but not from the "Technical" [2] and "Standards" [3] sections.

[1]: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

[2]: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Technical.html

[3]: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/Standards/Overview.html

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Re:OpenXanadu by themadturk on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:28PM (#32219607)
Ted Nelson was mentioned specifically in his original proposal document, so I would say it had some influence.
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