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‘My original vision for a universal Web was as an armchair aid to help people do things in the web of real life. It would be a mirror, reflecting reports or conversations or art and mapping social interactions. But more and more, the mirror model is wrong, because interaction is taking place primarily on the Web. People are using the Web to build things they have not built or written of drawn or communicated anywhere else. As the web becomes a primary space for much activity, we have to be careful that it allows for a just and fair society. The Web must allow equal access to those in different economic and political situations; those who have physical or cognitive disabilities; those of different cultures; and those who use different languages with different characters that read in different directions…’
Tim Berners-Lee (kind of invented the WorldWideWeb)
- read Weaving the Web
the web functions best as an information interarchy · deep local basins of information are interconnected by multiple inter-site streams based on common interest · information connections are primary · sources are secondary · a complex adaptive system might appear disordered · except when you know it well enough or stand back far enough
this personal website has gradually evolved since the mid-90s into something a bit like real life · providing hierarchical menus restricts development · I just insert links wherever they suggest themselves · specific threads grow into mini-sites · one day maybe a self-updating map · to show where you've been and what's new
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