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The Internet as a Linguistic Concept (...more)
Some people think of the Internet and the World Wide Web as products of computer science. They treat them as marginal developments which are primarily the concern of technology specialists. When new technologies appear we are rarely equipped to understand...
September 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Mind Analogy (...more)You may have heard the term collective consiousonous. It is tempting to make a comparison between the internetworking of minds and machines and the wiring of our own brains. Computers, it could be said, provide the brain and cortex, the...
February 3, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Understanding the Semantic Web (...more)The Semantic Web is a term used to describe an effort by TBL's W3C to put data inherent to our digital world into a mutually-understood machine-readable format. This refers also to data which describes offline physical-world objects like buildings, cars,...
January 29, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Enhanced communication through shared knowledge (...more)TBL (WTW p. 162): "When I proposed the web in 1989, the driving force I had in mind was communication through shared knowledge and the driving "market" for it was collaboration among people at work and at home. By building...
January 29, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
What is Hypertext? (...more)W3C Definition, Hypertext: text which is not constrained to be linear Before there was HTML (definition) there was SGML For the advent of Hypertext we owe much to Ted Nelson. Transclusion, says Nelson, is a term to define virtual inclusion,...
January 15, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
