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1/ If Roam fails this is how it will happen No product I know of has a longer history of failure than hypertext, as recounted in this article, so it doesn't exactly take a lot of imagination wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/

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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏

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Apr 13, 2020

I went looking in

@andy_matuschak

's notes for a quote he had about Xanadu which summed up my thoughts there - but couldn't search the notes or backlinks easily Xanadu was more like Urbit than Roam - required whole system to work Couldn't use the system to improve the system

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Hm, perhaps notes.andymatuschak.org/z7Ldzn94FibghJ I've been hesitant to add search because I sort of like the sense of enigmatic inaccessibility—the sense when one sees a new link of "oh, what will this lead to?" This is fairly silly, though.

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Insight through making prefers bricolage to big design up front

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