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an experiment
It has been more than twenty years since my first foray on the internet. As a junior in
computer science I was in a group comprised of only a few hundred students in CS and
Engineering who were given access to this domain.
Indeed, all other students whatever their majors, had no such access which, since its
inception, had been available only to academia, the military, and other government entities.
I had no doubt that if I had asked anyone 'on the street' what the internet
was, not one person in a hundred would have known.
Back then, navigating the internet was not nearly simple as now. It required the
use of Unix commands though for us these were already familiar terms. The fascination
wore thin quickly.
Everything was text; there were no graphics, windows, images,
hyperlinks; in short, it was missing virtually all that makes the net so compelling now.
The year was 1989 and the first website would not be conceived and built until 1991. Its
creator was Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist and MIT professor, who also
invented the concept of the World Wide Web.
As I begin this adventure of experiment I am mindful that the web may be
the ultimate expression of democratic opportunity. With minimal resources and an idea
of merit the potential for gain is quite extraordinary.
Though I have no particular expectations it is curiosity that drives my interest here.
Unlike a typical site which has a single purpose, I have chosen instead an eclectic
composition of domains and pages whose form, features, and other characteristics are
subject to change over time.
My guiding idea will be very simple. Try something and see what happens.
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