Internet Wonders

Mark was what you would have to call an “early adopter” of the World Wide Web. And even 10 years ago he was telling me that I could find anything I might want to know about – any information at all – on the internet. I couldn’t imagine how. Wouldn’t someone have to take the time to put it there in the first place? And why would they do that? Talk about time consuming! I thought it was one of those things where you thought everything was there because so much was there that you’d stopped looking elsewhere. (Did that make sense?)

I’ve become a believer though.

A few months ago we were in a small museum where there was a display of early Kentucky life. On the wall there was a “Grammatical Chart” of unbelievable detail – a convoluted attempt to categorize English grammar in a circular chart in order, presumably, to teach it to poor, unfortunate pioneer children. We’d never seen such a thing before, so I took a picture and started looking, when we got home, for any reference to this amazing thing on the internet. There wasn’t much – this Clark guy was evidently on his own with this idea – but I did find one link, and there it was – the same chart as in my picture.

(this is MY picture – now check out the internet site.)