<s>
Project	B-Protocol
Xanadu	I-Protocol
(	O
)	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
hypertext	O
project	O
,	O
founded	O
in	O
1960	O
by	O
Ted	O
Nelson	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Administrators	O
of	O
Project	B-Protocol
Xanadu	I-Protocol
have	O
declared	O
it	O
superior	O
to	O
the	O
World	O
Wide	O
Web	O
,	O
with	O
the	O
mission	O
statement	O
:	O
"	O
Today	O
's	O
popular	O
software	O
simulates	O
paper	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Wired	O
magazine	O
published	O
an	O
article	O
called	O
"	O
The	O
Curse	O
of	O
Xanadu	O
"	O
,	O
calling	O
Project	B-Protocol
Xanadu	I-Protocol
"	O
the	O
longest-running	O
vaporware	B-Application
story	O
in	O
the	O
history	O
of	O
the	O
computer	O
industry	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
proposed	O
a	O
machine-language	O
program	O
which	O
would	O
store	B-General_Concept
and	O
display	O
documents	O
,	O
together	O
with	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
perform	O
edits	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
was	O
different	O
from	O
a	O
word	B-General_Concept
processor	I-General_Concept
(	O
which	O
was	O
not	O
invented	O
yet	O
)	O
in	O
that	O
the	O
functionality	O
would	O
have	O
included	O
visual	O
comparisons	B-Application
of	O
different	O
versions	O
of	O
the	O
document	O
,	O
a	O
concept	O
Nelson	O
would	O
later	O
call	O
"	O
intercomparison	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1967	O
,	O
while	O
working	O
for	O
Harcourt	O
,	O
Brace	O
,	O
he	O
named	O
his	O
project	B-Protocol
Xanadu	I-Protocol
,	O
in	O
honour	O
of	O
the	O
poem	O
"	O
Kubla	O
Khan	O
"	O
by	O
Samuel	O
Taylor	O
Coleridge	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1974	O
,	O
with	O
the	O
advent	O
of	O
computer	O
networking	O
,	O
Nelson	O
refined	O
his	O
thoughts	O
about	O
Xanadu	O
into	O
a	O
centralised	O
source	O
of	O
information	O
,	O
calling	O
it	O
a	O
"	O
docuverse	B-Protocol
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
at	O
Autodesk	O
,	O
the	O
group	O
,	O
led	O
by	O
Gregory	O
,	O
completed	O
a	O
version	O
of	O
the	O
software	O
,	O
written	O
in	O
the	O
C	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
,	O
though	O
the	O
software	O
did	O
not	O
work	O
the	O
way	O
they	O
wanted	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Then	O
a	O
newer	O
group	O
of	O
programmers	O
,	O
hired	O
from	O
Xerox	O
PARC	O
,	O
used	O
the	O
problems	O
with	O
this	O
software	O
as	O
justification	O
to	O
rewrite	O
the	O
software	O
in	O
Smalltalk	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Charles	O
S	O
.	O
Smith	O
,	O
the	O
founder	O
of	O
a	O
company	O
called	O
Memex	B-General_Concept
(	O
named	O
after	O
a	O
hypertext	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
proposed	O
by	O
Vannevar	O
Bush	O
)	O
,	O
hired	O
many	O
of	O
the	O
Xanadu	O
programmers	O
(	O
including	O
lead	O
architects	O
Mark	O
S	O
.	O
Miller	O
,	O
Dean	O
Tribble	O
and	O
Ravi	O
Pandya	O
)	O
and	O
licensed	O
the	O
Xanadu	O
technology	O
,	O
though	O
Memex	B-General_Concept
soon	O
faced	O
financial	O
difficulties	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
then-unpaid	O
programmers	O
left	O
,	O
taking	O
the	O
computers	O
with	O
them	O
(	O
the	O
programmers	O
were	O
eventually	O
paid	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2007	O
,	O
Project	B-Protocol
Xanadu	I-Protocol
released	O
XanaduSpace	O
1.0	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Every	O
user	O
can	O
search	O
,	O
retrieve	B-Algorithm
,	O
create	O
and	O
store	B-General_Concept
documents	O
.	O
</s>
