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== Design and inspiration ==
XANADU is heavily inspired by [[wikipedia:Ted Nelson|Ted Nelson]]'s real-life hypertext [[wikipedia:Project Xanadu|Project Xanadu]], along with [[wikipedia:ELIZA|ELIZA]] (itself named after the play ''[[wikipedia:Pygmalion(play)|Pygmalion]]'''s Eliza Doolittle), an early natural language processing program created by [[wikipedia:Joseph Weizenbaum|Joseph Weizenbaum]] which had a large influence on the development of text adventure videogames.
The physical computer as seen in the game is a reference to the early [[wikipedia:PDP-1|PDP-1]] computer.
