Thank you for leaving this comment.

I think if I have an "original sin" it's that I was simply naive ....my whole life! I didn't think we'd all join hands around the world, but I think I believed in a few things that seem foolish. For instance, I thought people wanted to like improve their own lives, which seems downstream of knowledge, but I sincerely had no idea deception and propaganda would be so big.

It's interesting cuz about half the comments were like ppl making fun of me or whatever, and about half made relevant comments. Moreover, I got a lot of down votes, and I thought the post was quite anodyne.

One comment illustrated to me that I have been perhaps using a flawed mental model for what the www is for around 30 years.

If only it were so easy!

Thank you for responding.

I had never thought of this before, but it's like that Borges story (and Charlie Kaufman movie) where a guy realizes the only literal map of the empire has to be the size of the empire.

That's interesting, as it suggests the www is an abstraction of itself. All along, I have envisioned it with a model that simply isn't accurate, and I just never noticed.

I ahoulda made an outline! As goes speech class, so goes life!

Thank you for taking the time to respond nevertheless. BTW, the tautology you called out was an accident I alllllmost went back to fix.

Dang I just noticed I got a lot of down votes on this post! Tough crowd!

My point (if it can be found) stands -- the www is a publishing platform, but in its early days, the notion was that it was an archive, whereas the prevailing usage is much more fleeting. Of course, as you mentioned, there is no singular usage pattern, as everyone has an individual mental model for it.

Do you sincerely not understand, or are you just trying to be funny?

OK, I will check those out cuz you said you like "Adaptation."

I have been watching documentaries about dirt lately. It's fascinating! I started looking for a farm -- there's a LOT for us to do, it turns out!