Interesting that the first three i tried took about 17 hops and got funnelled through the "Life" entry.
corndog
sensimilia
halitosis
This took a few less hops and stayed in 'techne':
voip.
Would love to see these searches graphed.
Years ago - one of my favorite sites was Everything2 (still up) - it was run on the slashdot engine. The fun of it was to follow the associated links at the bottom of the entry to see where it would take you.
Slashdot used to link to Everything (back before it was Everything2) as a sort of instant-dictionary for tech terms. Stories would have something like "RSS 2.0(?) and Atom(?) proponents are squaring off..." with the question marks going to the relevant Everything node. Most of the time, the terms wouldn't be defined until the story went live, and then they would be in short order.
It was a neat symbiosis, especially back before Wikipedia existed. However, they were separate sites. Both Slashcode (which runs Slashdot) and the Everything Engine (which runs Everything2) are written in Perl. Everything was never run on Slashcode, though, AFAIK.
Interesting that the first three i tried took about 17 hops and got funnelled through the "Life" entry.
corndog sensimilia halitosis
This took a few less hops and stayed in 'techne': voip.
Would love to see these searches graphed.
Years ago - one of my favorite sites was Everything2 (still up) - it was run on the slashdot engine. The fun of it was to follow the associated links at the bottom of the entry to see where it would take you.