The era of Egalitarian Communities
The era of Egalitarian Communities
- Firstly, the idea in 1994 to put molecules on the Web for all.[1],[2]
- An early example of a Meme (Self-replicating idea).
- Spawned a number of software projects (Rasmol/Open, Chime/Commercial, Jmol/Open).
- In 1997, Henry Rzepa decided to teach a course on how students might retrieve (chemical) information.
- The course was presented as conventional Web pages (they are still up, as a historical document!)
- And we got students to express what they had learnt by each writing a small project about an interesting molecule
- In those days, students were keen to learn how to write HTML
- Some of the best can still be seen here
- But as the years went by, they started to query the usefulness of this skill!
- In 2001, Wikipedia was launched.
- From 2004, Chemists spotted that molecules map beautifully onto Wiki(pedia) pages!
- ↑ H. S. Rzepa, B. J. Whitaker and M. J. Winter, "Chemical applications of the World-Wide-Web system", J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 1907-1910. DOI:10.1039/C39940001907
- ↑ O. Casher, G. Chandramohan, M. Hargreaves, C. Leach, P. Murray-Rust, R. Sayle, H. S. Rzepa and B. J. Whitaker, "Hyperactive Molecules and the World-Wide-Web Information System", J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans 2, 1995, 7-11. DOI:10.1039/P29950000007