Although we recognized that all textbooks were unrefereed, the authors were distinguished, senior learners, so that we simply accepted their ideas and opinions. New information, today, requires a new skill. No longer are the senior learners giving us the benefit of their collective experience. We need a new skill, a highly tuned absurdity detector that can assist us un separating sense from nonsense. Desktop computers are now, by and large, all linked by the internet, a communication network originally started by our military leaders.
Information can flow along the internet paths between computers in one of two distinct forms.
What started as an experiment within the particle accelerator groups at CERN, in Switzerland, now has become a way of life for many of us. A hypertext document is an assembly of characters similar to a traditional document. In a traditional document, each character of the document has a single meaning - i.e. it forms part of a word that draws a picture in our head. As an example, the word Stead.html is simply a word. This type of sentence is called a hypertext reference - and we can refer to hypertext documents, to images, to audio files and to video files.