Docuverse
Encyclopedia
Docuverse is a global distributed electronic library of interconnected documents, in other words a global metadocument. The term was coined by Ted Nelson
in 1974, as a concept related to the Project Xanadu
, and the World Wide Web
later nominally fulfilled a subset of the aspects of Nelson's vision.
Ted Nelson
Theodor Holm Nelson is an American sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the terms "hypertext" and "hypermedia" in 1963 and published it in 1965...
in 1974, as a concept related to the Project Xanadu
Project Xanadu
Project Xanadu was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it an improvement over the World Wide Web, with mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper...
, and the World Wide Web
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet...
later nominally fulfilled a subset of the aspects of Nelson's vision.