50 years of magic... and more

In 1941, Konrad Zuse presented his Z3, the first ever "working programmable, fully automatic computing machine". Following the earlier experiments Z1 and Z2, the Z3 was faster and stronger: so strong that it had a weight of 1000 kilos and a power consumption of roughly 4000 watts.
Fifty years after that, on August 6th, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee (8 June 1955) published the first ever website. He's considered the father of the three W's: World Wide Web. Working at CERN, he will quickly came up with the concepts of hypertext and computer networking. Curiously enough, it was also in 1941 when the argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges published The Garden of Forking Paths, a story that may have accelerated the very concept of hypertext, if not invented it. A text (or a memory?) leading to some other text, some other garden, some other life, some past soon to return...

Perhaps as a sheet rocked by the breeze or the bending and warping of some sculptures or buildings that we witness today, the crossings that occur in the digital world also carry forking paths that we are only beggining to understand now. Hidden answers long before they were written on the corners of the servers.

Between the forking paths of history, we find the unexpected crossing of Zuse, Borges and Berners-Lee as an amazing truth that returns without ever really disappearing.