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The Information Mesh. A directory of connected pages, in plain hypertext.

1. What this is

Before it was called the World Wide Web, its inventor weighed names like “Mine of Information” and “Information Mesh.” The second one is a good description of what this directory is trying to be: pages that point at other pages, with meaning attached to the pointing.

Every page we mint here links back to the pages it was made from, so the directory grows as a connected graph and not as a pile. It is written as ordinary HTML, CSS and JavaScript, with the connections also spelled out for machines.

For scale: when 1994 began there were, by one count, only 623 websites on the whole web, and Yahoo started that year as a hand-edited list. This directory starts at zero, which is a fine place to start. The first website is still online at CERN, if you want to see where the idea began.

The rest of the station is one click away: About, Game, Content.

2. Directory

Nothing is minted yet. These are the shelves we plan to fill. Red links are pages that do not exist yet, the way early Wikipedia marked articles waiting to be written.

Softwareplanned

Preserved vintage software, runnable in a browser tab.

Datasetsplanned

Datasets whose pages show exactly what they were made from.

Cipher gamesplanned

Puzzles hidden inside ordinary-looking pages.

Strange pagesplanned

Pages that look like a 1990s desktop, a 2030 dashboard, or nothing you have seen before.

About red links. A red link points at a page that is planned and not yet created. Clicking one brings you here. When the page exists, the link turns blue.

3. Traversals

Each new page links to every page before it, so the links form a spine running back through everything that came earlier.

page 1   links to its sources only
page 2   links to page 1
page 3   links to pages 1, 2
page 4   links to pages 1, 2, 3
page N   links to pages 1 … N−1

The edges go in each page’s head for crawlers, and again below the content for humans, showing how, what and why the pages relate, sorted by confidence. Ledgers and Pydantic models decide most edges. Some come from inference, and those are labeled.

The webring follows the edge order. Crossed-out links switch on when there are pages to travel between.

Traversals will be listed here as pages are minted.

4. For machines

Pages here are written to be read without a browser. Three formats are planned.

JSON-LDstandard

Schema.org structured data in each page’s head, naming the page, its sources and its edges.

root-ldexperimental

Our own format, based on research into how AI systems retrieve information.

recursive-ldexperimental

A second experiment in the same family, where a page’s record includes the records it descends from.

Sitemaps for crawlers and AI systems will be listed here as pages are minted. The site-wide machine files are linked in the footer.

5. For humans

You can read a page, follow its links back through the pages it came from, or press “I’m Feeling Strange” above and see where you land. If you want a machine’s help, “Copy for AI” at the top copies this whole page as text you can paste into a chatbot.

Here is what the link colours mean on this page:

Blue

A page that exists.

Purple

A page you have already visited.

Red, dotted

A page that is planned and not yet created.

Teal, thick underline

A link back into the rest of the station.