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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu

Basically with a POD of 1960 what would happen if Xanadu became the dominate Hypertext system rather then the web? Xanadu didn't use links as we know them on the web. Rather it used Transclusions where the "linked" document was included with the document citing it, in context. rather then a system of links, documents that give you the address of other documents, Transclusions actually cite in context. While the web suffers from link rot, Transcluded documents as copied every time they are transcluded. They also had some intresting ideas involving copyright.
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