At a Chapman University Event — Intertwingled:

Ted Nelson announced the release of Xanadu for the web browser:

Instructions

1. Realize that it loads slowly.  Just wait.  It’s just a demo so the performance hasn’t been optimized.
2. The user interface isn’t always intuitive (it uses keyboard shortcuts)

View Demo

 

Background:

• The main content is visible in the middle and the related content is displayed in parallel on the side
• The connections between the different sources are displayed with colored lines between the documents
• To see the related source, click on it with your mouse.  To get back to the prior source, click on it.

 

About the document:

• The document, written by Moe Justes, is a compilation of different sources.
• I haven’t read all the content; but though Ted Nelson has said he himself is an atheist, Juste’s method of intertextually invoking other sources is actually quite biblical.
• At this point, it probably isn’t easy to duplicate something like this with your own content, but I wonder how biblical criticism could benefit from this form of parallel writing.