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This idea is similar to Vannevars Memex idea in a different form

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Without going to much into what my federated wiki journal is, just imagine that instead of blogging and tweeting your experience you wiki’d it.


More reading to do on this idea of a Garden, also with hypertext Mark Bernstein

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The Garden is an old metaphor associated with hypertext. Those familiar with the history will recognize this. The Garden of Forking Paths from the mid-20th century. The concept of the Wiki Gardener from the 1990s. Mark Bernstein’s 1998 essay Hypertext Gardens.


Tribute to Vannevar's Memex here. Relating the Garden to the Memex

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Now when people talk about Bush’s article, they are usually talking about the portion that starts around section six, which seems so prescient, so predictive of the web to come. He talks there about a machine he envisions called the Memex:


Idea of the Stream originating in Early 2000's by Facebook and Twitter

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You have a page which represents you, in a reverse chronological stream — your Facebook page or Twitter home page.The pages of people you are friends with get aggregated into a serialized time ordered feed. Your Stream becomes your context and your interface.


Interesting insight of modern technology, how many people are actually building these Gardens nowadays?

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Everybody wants to play in the Stream, but no one wants to build the Garden.


Weird tangent in relation to trails... Wanted to learn more about trading in the past

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