Collective human consciousness is full of imagined or mythical dream-like utopias, hidden away behind mountains, across or under oceans, hidden in mist, or deep in the jungle. The Xanadu project got its start in the 1960s at around the same time the mouse and what we might recognize as a modern computer user interface were created. It also had version control, rights management, bi-directional links, and a number of additional features that would be revolutionary even today. Surprisingly, despite these faults, the project received significant funding from Autodesk, but even with this support the project ultimately failed. Instead of this robust, bi-directional web imagined as early as the 1960s, the Internet we know of today is the much simpler World Wide Web which has many features of Xanadu we recognize.