The Card Table

[Dave Monroe]

And cf. as well Vannevar Bush's ur-net, the Memex ...

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm

And see as well, e.g. ...

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0051.html

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0034.html

--- JTL <jtl at greennet.gl> wrote:
>
> "...excepting a sinister and wonderful Card Table
> which exhibits the cheaper sinusoidal Grain known in
> the Trade as Wand'ring Heart, causing an illusion of
> Depth into which for years children had gaz'd as
> into the illustrated Pages of Books...along with so
> many hinges, sliding Mortices, hidden catches, and
> secret compartements that neither the Twins nor
> their Sister can say they had been to the end of
> it."
> 
> The "Card Table"  is a computer connected to the
> internet....

Again, excellent.  Welcome aboard, indeed ...

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