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The Lowest Protocol

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The World Wide Web is built over a big pile of technological strata called protocols; from time to time, a new stratum is added on top of the pile to provide some kind of new or improved functionality.

If you dig deep down the pile, under HTML, under IP, under TCP, under anything else, you'll find the lowest protocol: the thousands-years-old writing systems.

This ancestral layer has not been forgotten by the citizens of the upper levels: the Internet has plenty information about alphabets, syllabaries, ideograms, logograms, pictograms...

I love this kind of things ending by -gram and -graph, so I often step into interesting WWW sites about writing. But, since my bookmarks became too many to fit my menu bar, I started dumping them in this page. Thanks to GeoCities for the free remote storage...

Still Working...

Now that my bookmarks are public, I realize that they are not so many as I thought: more will come as I'll find new interesting information on the Net.

If you have any comments, critics, or suggestions, please drop me a line.

Among other things, please feel free to point out my blunders with English: my mother tongue is Italian!
M.C.

	The Pulp I have divided the world's writing systems into families. This subdivision has no scientific significance; please take it for what it is: simply a way of splitting the list in chunks more easily loaded by your browser.
	The Han Stock Chinese characters are called logograms, as each character ("-gram") represents a word ("logo-").
	The Phoenician Stock For the Phoenician businessmen, learning thousands ideograms was an annoying waste of time -- and time was money!
	The Brahmi Stock Brahmi spread throughout India and Asia following religions, and is the forefather of a wide family of scripts.
	Science And Fiction An illiterate Klingon deserves as much esteem as a Vulcanian, so you're better follow my links and learn the alphabet!
	And More... This section contains anything that does not belong to one of the other sections and doesn't justify a section on its own.