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Originally Posted by hobnail
announce something new and then it would be available in a month or two. In Unix land (well before Linux) Sun, IBM, DEC, etc. would announce something and you'd be lucky if it came out 2 years later.
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Project Xanadu started in 1960.
I read up on it and looked at FutureNet schematic capture (hierarchical/hyper links in documents and Apple's Hypercard in late 1980s when designing a pocket electronic notepad with a stylus that worked as phone handset in 1989.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
Longest vapourware ever to produce something, about 55 years! Still doesn't work.
WWW HTTP spec (approx 1989, websites 1992) was over a decade after the Internet started and wasn't original at all. Designed for LAN sharing of documents with no thought of privacy, security or way of tracking what linked to a page.