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 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.