On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, chris clepper wrote:
It's the catalog for the store.
It's not directly a data store, because any kinds of things lie between the data stores of the internet, and the user... if there is even a data store. Often the servers are used for computations rather than storage.
I also wanted to recommend a good short story by Jorge Luis Borges. It's an absurd dystopia about information theory, permutations, catalogues, metacatalogues, lies, noise, typos, randomness, and meaning. Well, that's what I remember reading into it.
oops, I sent the mail before finishing it. Here's the title:
"La Biblioteca de Babel"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
Here's the version that I remember reading:
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html
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