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GARY WOLF 06.01.95 12:00 PM The Curse of Xanadu I T WA S T H E most radical computer dream of the hacker era. Ted Nelson's Xanadu project was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. Instead, it sucked Nelson and his intrepid band of true believers into what became the longest-running vaporware project in the history of computing - a 30-year saga of rabid prototyping and heart-slashing despair. The amazing epic tragedy. CHAPTERONE I said a brief prayer as Ted Nelson - hypertext guru and design genius -…

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