Yahoo: October 1996; Google: December 1996; Google Beta: January 1997......
In exactly five days, it's been eleven years on the Internet for me... with some gaps in between... I still remember that I mainly used email and listservers because the search engines were still a mistery to me, long series of numbered sites without even a hint about the contents... we've indeed come a long way!
This reminded me of the recurrence concept and brought me to the fractal recurrence in hypertime (that's the Bleep!) from which I took this quote which I find interwoven into the above picture... (ok, I admit that I have a very weird file system running up there... but I'm Pisces so it explains all?)
Fractal Recurrence in Hypertime
As the information released by undoing complex knots can cause other knots to spontaneously do themselves up (for a time), the knots that get done up again can either be repetitions of simple knots, or sometimes, the whole re-appearance of centre-wards structures. In these cases, the trajectories of the photons that make up the re-appeared structures must be constrained to allow it to happen.
The chances of getting a complex structure a long way from the centre, that is not composed of elements that were authentically together near the centre, gets less and less the more complex the structure is. As one looks from the "edge" to the centre, one sees some simple early structures that are composed of bits of many centre-wards structures, and complex early structures that are authentic orbital reconstructions of single upline structures.
This phenomenon of the reemergence of fractal structure is well known, for instance on the periphery of the Mandelbrot set, tiny Mandelbrot sets can be found hidden within the main one, at all scale levels.
You can find this and other interesting articles at
The Reciprocality ProjectI love their main page quote...
"Have you discovered then the beginning, that you look for the end?"
Indeed... and in fact it wasn't exactly the beginning... but the
Web Archive with its Wayback Machine starts around October 1996... too bad I don't remember much of the sites that were online at that time, and either way the past is behind... but it was kind of an adventure to surf the Web with a 2400Kbps dial-up faxmodem whooahhh! 6 hours to download one megabyte... at the time of the pictured pages, I had upgraded to a whopping 18600Kbps card, though.
I made many friends, and a few are still around despite the long periods when I was disconnected... and even one of them has managed to keep one of my (and his) first Internet musings alive (was a joint website about Internet addiction... seems there's no cure after all!! haha):
Ser VirtualIt's in Spanish but if you follow the links down the page to his menu page and manage to sort out all the broken links, you might have the pleasure to take the
Internet Addiction Test (can't believe it's still there! the only one alive...) or visit
my friend's home and family in Sweden...
Indeed, 11 years it's a bunch, and allows to be (a little) nostalgic...
Back to reality now!
