U R the Meat of the Metaverse

Reality is frequently inaccurate. – Douglas Adams Back in the 1990s, I was an alpha tester for an online education project being developed at NCSA (The National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The previous sentence was my payment – the right to say I had briefly worked with NCSA at UIUC. Because of that connection, I …

Happy Birthday to the WWW

The Internet? We are not interested in it. – Bill Gates, 1993 The very first webpage was posted on August 6, 1991. Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee posted the “plain vanilla” web page on the servers at CERN where he worked at the time. The computer wizard developed the protocols for HTML, HTTP and URLs which …

Grateful for One Another

Let us fight to free the world! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all people’s happiness. – Charlie Chaplin Contemplate the deeper meanings of the word free for a few minutes. What comes to mind? …