Introduction

We can enrich our study
the here of not really anywhere
by living beekeepers and honey hunters
web sites and individual web pages.
The past can thus literally come to life
after hundreds or even thousands of years.

Historically the impact of sericulture and
apiculture on world trade and economics cannot
begin to be evaluated. Silk, honey and other
domestic insect products may rival steel in their
all-time productive value, when measured over
the entire span of their use.
This
is concerned in principle with material remains, but
the Web as shared space
has been used to provide links which are not otherwise available.
I have also skirted round a good many questions,
I have dealt mostly with hives rather than tools and other equipment,
whose use of that which humans wish to codify and remember
needs detailed explanations.

The net a place of commercial ventures, fast cash
remains a project that spoke to the communal nature of the early net
described here for the first time
the uses of image over text are very extensive,
and therefore more space is devoted to this area than would be given in a
world history.
Such a book still remains to be written in an earlier, pre-lingual state.
Given short accounts
have appeared to the minds of men.
thought was less linear, more intuitive
digital handprints cover the walls
the communities we have established here
keep places like this sacred