Oneironaut
11-28-2006, 09:51 PM
Go to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org), and click "random article". Then click "random article" again, and see if you can navigate your way through the encyclopedia back to the previous random page.
For example:
Random article #1: Dalmuir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmuir), a town in Scotland.
Random article #2: Love as Laughter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_as_Laughter), an American pop band.
I then click on the link to United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States), where I find a link to List of countries by population (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population), where I find a link to United Kingdom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom), which brings me to Scotland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland), which brings me to Subdivisions of Scotland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland), which brings me to West Dunbartonshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Dunbartonshire), where I find a link to Dalmuir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmuir), the original random article I was brought to. I made it there in seven clicks.
Sometimes the path is short and simple, sometimes it takes some exploration and clever thinking, but I find there's almost always some way to get there. Try it out.
For example:
Random article #1: Dalmuir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmuir), a town in Scotland.
Random article #2: Love as Laughter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_as_Laughter), an American pop band.
I then click on the link to United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States), where I find a link to List of countries by population (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population), where I find a link to United Kingdom (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom), which brings me to Scotland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland), which brings me to Subdivisions of Scotland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Scotland), which brings me to West Dunbartonshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Dunbartonshire), where I find a link to Dalmuir (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalmuir), the original random article I was brought to. I made it there in seven clicks.
Sometimes the path is short and simple, sometimes it takes some exploration and clever thinking, but I find there's almost always some way to get there. Try it out.