Notes From A Bear's Journey

      For some reason I've never delved into Shakespeare and his era of thees and thous.  But I do remember when farewell once meant (and was said as) fare-thee-well, just as goodbye once meant God-be-with-ye.  But all things contract, and change, and often vanish...even the internet, or at least the original version of it.  This issue came up in a piece in the New York Review on the web's early creation, all of which was pioneered by the visionary computer programmer, Tim Berners-Lee and written in his recent book, This Is for Everyone .  His breakthrough idea (bouncing off the computer "super-highway" idea of then vice-president Al Gore) was to tie everything together with links, spiderwebbed chains of more and more information...a web of world-wide proportions.  He envisioned a free and public inter-"net" whose idealistic origins, in his view, are rapidly disappearing.  Wrote a review in the  New York Review , Bergers-Lee felt t...