ManicLink
- Think of a web page you'd like to visit.
- Start on any web page (e.g. here).
- Try to get to the page you thought of, just by clicking links.
- For bonus points, count the links, or have a competition with friends, see who did it in the fewest links.
- For more info on the structure of the web, see:
- the Web in 19 Clicks (similar to 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon)
- there's a new study that refutes the 19-click hypothesis (some pages may be 100's of clicks apart).
- Some history: Stanley Milgram, in 1967, claimed that any person, via 5 or 6 acquaintances, can be traced to any other person. This became known as “six degrees of separation” after the John Guare play and movie.
- Assessing the Structure of the WWW
- the web as a Pyramid
- the web as a Bow Tie
- the web as a Scale-free topology
- the Web in 19 Clicks (similar to 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon)