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,{{cite book|title=Hypertext in Context|url=https://archive.org/details/hypertextinconte0000mckn|url-access=registration|author1=Cliff McKnight |author2=Andrew Dillon |author3=John Richardson |pages=[https://archive.org/details/hypertextinconte0000mckn/page/8 8]|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1991|isbn=052137488X}} and the World Wide Web later nominally fulfilled a subset of the aspects of Nelson's vision.{{Cite book |last=Winkler |first=Hartmut |title=Docuverse: zur Medientheorie der Computer |date=1997 |publisher=Boer |isbn=978-3-924963-84-2 |location=Regensburg}}