Of course.  I orange pilled its inventor.  Ted Nelson is great.  So, if you read Tim's book, he want to visit Ted Nelson.  Ted wrote a book called "Literary Machines" and Tim got a signed copy.  Then when he got home he sent Ted a check for the book, but Ted could never cash it because it was in swiss franks.  Years later I paid for the book in bitcoin which cost 0.25 bitcoin at the time (I wish I had that today!).  And proved to Ted that we could do transactions on the internet that worked.  Probably the most expensive demo I've ever done.  But Ted is now a bitcoin fan, and he loves satoshi, I had some good chats with him about it.  Ted makes some great content still.  Xanadu is great, but I think the web project won because it was closest to the status quo as possible, html was like sgml which browsers already used, and http was like smtp which email already used.  Xanadu was more a shift in paradigm with transcusion and other cool stuff.  I think it's still going, I like it. 

 Yeh, we played with it quite a bit before the web became a thing. 

 Big competitor to the web at the time was Gopher.  Then at some point there was a rumour they would charge fees on some of the instances.  At that point everyone switched to the web which had no transaction fees or royalties.  So people get to try the system for free, and later comes the commerce layer.  Tho commercial layer of the web has gone a bit too far.  Hence working on an open web to create a balance. 

 Gopher, Veronica, WAIS, I used them all before the web.

We built data centres in the late 80's - 2000's, we had usenet feeds and all sorts going on.

I've been having a discussion about NTP recently and shocked to see it be superseded by PTP. Apparently we need nano second accurate clocks in our X boxes now 😂  

 you realize that usenet and nostr are a very similar model? 

 No, I've never looked that deep, but now you mention it, I can see the similarities!