Enquire Within Upon Everything

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The internet is big! And Wonderful, and full of stories.

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Alan Levinecogdogblog.com

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Like a house, every paragraph in "Enquire Within" has its number,—and the Index is the Directory which will explain

what Facts, Hints, and Instructions inhabit that number.

Suggestion of magic... a

portal to the world of

information

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The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.

a really big place

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Grand Canyon Google Streetview http://maps.google.com/grandcanyon

virtually real

data alive

Archery Mathematica Generated GIFs http://intothecontinuum.tumblr.com/

Mathematica docs http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/howto/CreateAnimations.html

You can do this!

mega collaboration

The Johnny Cash Project http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com/#/contribute

You can do this!

beyond print

How We Made Snow Fall http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/how-we-made-snow-fall/

You can do this!

world changing

Blog Platforms http://blogger.com http://wordpress.com http://tumblr.com http://typepad.com

You can do this!

Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished.

The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished. There was a second part of the dream, too, dependent on the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiment) of the ways in which we work and play and socialize.

The World Wide Web: A very short personal history by Tim Berners-Lee May 7, 1998http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html

Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished. There was a second part of the dream, too, dependent on the Web being so generally used that it became a realistic mirror (or in fact the primary embodiment) of the ways in which we work and play and socialize. That was that once the state of our interactions was on line, we could then use computers to help us analyse it, make sense of what we are doing, where we individually fit in, and how we can better work together.

TMI?

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SMI!

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