Everything2 you and I.

[nfotxn]

Man, I forgot how much fun everything2 is.

Try it out, just search for anything. Uncommon words with user-submitted definitions are hyper-links to the node on that term which of course has the same machine-parsed links to other nodes mentioned in the articles. It's sorta like a micro-cosm of what the internet was intended to be.

Some of the associations are a little off-the-wall but generally it's an accurate portrait of people's associations and connotations. At least, the people who use everything2.

Sorta reminds me of days past on the internet. When most people who made webpages knew how to use hypertext. Things have definitly dumbed down since then, it's nice to see an island of (pseudo-?) intellectuality still preserved.

I encourage everybody to write nodes. There isn't a node on homo-masculinity or gay bears, for instance ;)

Comments

[ranger1.livejournal.com]

Neato. They even have good (and entertaining) definitions of various routing protocols. I like how OSPF is described as being designed by a "nefarious" person. Actually, that would apply to just about anyone involved in the IETF.

A search on "spanning tree" yields no description of the protocol itself, but it does give you the whimsical poem (http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?displaytype=printable&node_id=621836&lastnode_id=0) that Radia Perlman wrote to go along with the protocol. What a strange omission.

[nfotxn.livejournal.com]

I'm suprised you, of all people, hadn't seen e2 before. It's been plugged on /. for like ever 'cause Jeff Bates (one of the founders) programmed it originally.

[sultmhoor.livejournal.com]

The old everything.blockstackers.com had GREAT stuff on it. If you really want to waste hours learning, it's the perfect site.

[jargon.livejournal.com]

the original, and still best - the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy - earth edition (http://www.h2g2.com/). kicks serious ass. proud to call myself a researcher.