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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Tim Berners Lee

Tim Berners Lee invented the Web in some sense, as we know. In this recent Wired article, that is expanded on a bit in the context of courtroom testimony. He is also on the record as saying that perhaps World Wide Web wasn't the best name since the structure of the web is really that of a graph, so the acronym GGG (Giant Global Graph) might be more appropriate. Here's his blog post originating that idea. A graph (also called a network sometimes), is a mathematical model that fits lots of the digital aspects of our lives we take for granted: online friendships, the web itself, viral videos, and on and on...

Here is the Internet shown as a graph:
and here is Facebook

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