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Docuverse

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.

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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,1 and the World Wide Web later nominally fulfilled a subset of the aspects of Nelson's vision.2

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  1. Cliff McKnight; Andrew Dillon; John Richardson (1991). Hypertext in Context. Cambridge University Press. pp. 8. ISBN 052137488X.
  2. Winkler, Hartmut (1997). Docuverse: zur Medientheorie der Computer. Regensburg: Boer. ISBN 978-3-924963-84-2.
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