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  1. Sep 2022
  2. www.w3.org www.w3.org
    The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized
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    1. KhosrowArian 26 Sep 2022
      An intriguing possibility, given a large hypertext database with typed links, is that it allows some degree of automatic analysis. It is possible to search, for example, for anomalies such as undocumented software or divisions which contain no people. It is possible to generate lists of people or devices for other purposes, such as mailing lists of people to be informed of changes.

      It's interesting and smart how the author thinks a hypertext system can be use for data analysis. Certain types of data analysis can be possible with such system, but a lot of research and development has been done on this field and today we have a completely different definition for data analysis/data science.

    2. KhosrowArian 26 Sep 2022
      Keywords are a common method of accessing data for which one does not have the exact coordinates. The usual problem with keywords, however, is that two people never chose the same keywords. The keywords then become useful only to people who already know the application well.

      I might be off and misunderstanding the idea, but this sentence reminds me of search. Not everyone googles the same keywords, but each word is linked to a collection of links relevant to this search. So maybe the author is wrong when they think using keywords comes with challenges.

    3. KhosrowArian 26 Sep 2022
      CERN is a model in miniature of the rest of world in a few years time

      This is exactly what I was looking for. Since the beginning of the article I was telling myself that a global hypertext system isn't just in CERN's interest, but the whole world. And This makes so much sense.

    4. KhosrowArian 26 Sep 2022
      As it is, CERN is constantly changing as new ideas are produced, as new technology becomes available, and in order to get around unforeseen technical problems

      This proposal makes sense and I see how it is actually in CERN's interest, but CERN seems so far away to me. I initially thought that this article was written in the USA and I thought why would a bunch of researchers in the US want to persuade CERN that a global hypertext system can help them. Then I had to google where WWW as invented and that was when I found out that this idea was invented in Sweitzerland.

    5. KhosrowArian 26 Sep 2022
      This document was an attempt to persuade CERN management that a global hypertext system was in CERN's interests

      It's fascinating that they had to persuade CERN that a global hypertext system in in their interest. I wonder why they had to persuade CERN. Is it because it wasn't obvious why a global hypertext system benefits CERN or they just didn't trust it.

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  3. cs.brown.edu cs.brown.edu
    Literary Machines : Third Edition
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    1. KhosrowArian 19 Sep 2022
      A-."!o...a. ~~, ~"•9t ~--)"fl)-- ~'""'Jut~

      At the beginning it was interesting for me to see the figures were handwritted/drawn by hand. But as I read more i started to get used to the visuals of the paper and they started making more sense.

    2. KhosrowArian 19 Sep 2022
      This system is built around theassumption that you are reading froma screen, not from paper.

      I think this sentence should go without saying. Back in 20th century the idea of reading from a screen must've been so amazing that they just mentioned it here.

    3. KhosrowArian 18 Sep 2022
      Thati s the back end. What computer youwatch it through, and how that machinei s programmed, is your "fr~end'-- aseparate problem.

      I liked the way they explained backend and front end here. It's a bit odd to me though that the figure they drew is low quality and maybe not too easy to understand for its readers more than fourth years ago.

    4. KhosrowArian 18 Sep 2022
      Sotheproblemistocreateageneral representationandstoragesystemthat willpermitauto-matic storage ofallstructuresausermightwanttoworkon,andthefaithfulaccountingoftheiJ: develop-ment.

      This reminds me of distributed systems. I am not sure if that's what the author is referring to, but it's interesting that the author(s) of this paper is thinking about that topic in the world of technology.

    5. KhosrowArian 18 Sep 2022
      ar. (And that a few yearsfrom now, small children will under-stand it immediately when they get achance to play with it.)

      This statement made me go back to the first page of the article and see when it was published. This is a very accurate prediction and seems like the author(s) knew if for a fact that this will happen in a near future.

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    Bush - As We May Think.pdf
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    1. KhosrowArian 15 Sep 2022
      At a recent World Fair a machine called a Voder wasshown. A girl stroked its keys and it emitted recognizablespeech. No human vocal cords entered in the procedure atany point; the keys simply combined some electrically pro-duced vibrations and passed these on to a loud-speaker.

      It's interesting how seeing a machine output human speech amazed people in 1940s, but nowadays we take everything for granted and and even very basic/cheap dolls can have this functionality.

    2. KhosrowArian 15 Sep 2022
      Two centuries ago Leibniz invented a calculatingmachine which embodied most of the essential features ofrecent keyboard devices, but it could not then come intouse. The economics of the situation were against it: thelabor involved in constructing it, before the days of massproduction, exceeded the labor to be saved by its use, sinceall it could accomplish could be duplicated by sufficient useof pencil and paper. Moreover, it would have been subjectto frequent breakdown, so that it could not have beendepended upon; for at that time and long after, complexit

      This reminds me of the definition of machines: Machines are designed is to reduce the effort (force) required to perform a simple task. Seems like Leibniz's work was in fact a huge scientific discovery, but it not only did not reduce the effort to perform a required task, it made performing the task harder due to the cost (economic + labor) that it incurred on the users.

    3. KhosrowArian 15 Sep 2022
      There is a growing mountain of research. But there isincreased evidence that we are being bogged down today asspecialization extends.

      This is a super interesting statement to me. According to my understanding, the author is saying that there's a bulk of knowledge that we don't know how to use and specialization is necessary for progress.

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