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01: Shared Knowledge and Content Development

Humanity invents to solve for the failings of its last invention. As the spoken word is subject to the limits of human memory, immediate but not transcendant, we record perception and thought as form, image, text, and notation so that we might delight in connection, discovery, belief, and memory. The history of human invention is a history of the imagined, realized, used, and revised tool. Our record of these inventions mark the stages of our journey to civilization and provides material for the next discovery. It is this inate curiosity that fuels our dialog with history. Personal knowledge, experience, thought and belief become real as we master their formation in the mediums we choose. The choices we make in collecting information are as as important as the connections we make from it. If our choices and selections are not complete, how might we misinterpret or mislead?

Fordham University: The Internet HISTORY Sourcebooks Project

Harbrace Gardners History of Art

C.Witcombe's Art History Resources on the Web
(This is a a good collection of image-based sites although many of the pages
and images are of low resolution)

Asianart.com

The Art of Japan

Institute and Museum of History and Science, Florence Italy
(see the Virtual Tour of Room IV - Galileo Galilei)

The History of Mathematics - D.R.Wilkins Trinity College, Dublin

School of Mathematicsand Statistics University of StAndrews, Scotland

The Inventor's Museum

The Tech - A Museum of Innovation

The American Institue of Physics - History Syllabi
- Exhibit Hall

National Geographic

The Charles Babbage Institute Center for the History of Information Processing

The Media History Project | Advertising & Material Culture History

Encyclopedia of Days

The Long Now Foundation: Welcome

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