Intrinsitivity

Knol: a unit of knowledge

The Knol project is a site that hosts many knols — units of knowledge — written about various subjects. The authors of the knols can take credit for their writing, provide credentials, and elicit peer reviews and comments. Users can provide feedback, comments, related information. So the Knol project is a platform for sharing information, with multiple cues that help you evaluate the quality and veracity of information.

A Timeline of Information History

This timeline presents significant events and developments in the innovation and management of information and documents from cave paintings (ca 30,000 BC) to the present. Only non-electronic innovations and developments are included (that is, digital and electronic communications are excluded).

CERN’s List of Webservers

This early list of webservers from 1992 paints something like an impressionist portrait of the World Wide Web’s foundational structure, including such topics as:

• supercomputing
• nuclear physics
• computer science
• intellectual property law
• first online magazine