"Xanadu Project" redirects here. For other uses, see Xanadu (disambiguation). Project Xanadu (/ˈzænəduː/ ZAN-ə-doo)[1] was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it superior to the World Wide Web, with the mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our