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The internet of maps and oracles - by Matt Locke

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The history of the internet is littered with things that look like oracles, but are actually maps.

The internet of maps and oracles The history of the internet is littered with things that look like oracles, but are actually maps. Matt Locke Mar 08, 2023 13 4 Share Before the web, Tim Berners-Lee wrote an application called ENQUIRE . It was based around cards that show the links between information in a database, allowing the user to move between the relational links as they research a subject. The inspiration, and name, came from a book Berners-Lee had been given as a child by his parents: “When I first began tinkering with a software program that eventually gave rise to the idea of the Wo

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