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Giant Global Graph
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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>The term <i>Giant Global Graph</i> was notably used the first time by the inventor of the <a href="/facts/World_Wide_Web/wvnTrWFq">World Wide Web</a>, <a href="/facts/Tim_Berners-Lee/JRv21mt9">Tim Berners-Lee</a>, on his blog.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> </p><p>Tim Berners-Lee thinks about the <a href="/facts/Social_network/kQg6aEVf">social network</a> itself that is inside and between social-network Web sites such as <a href="/facts/Facebook/0IhXFR6u">Facebook</a>. He assumes that people can use the word "Graph" to distinguish these from the "Web". Then he says that, although he called this graph the <a href="/facts/Semantic_Web/NFHo9dB7">Semantic Web</a>, maybe it should have been called the "Giant Global Graph". </p><p>"GGG" has been used several times by Berners-Lee and by others in other blogs.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> GGG may be described as the content plus pointers of the WWW transitioning to content plus pointers plus relationships plus descriptions. </p><p>Significantly, the Giant Global Graph concept seems to have been a significant input in Facebook's concept and name for their "<a href="/facts/Open_Graph/IoHpQE94">Open Graph</a>" project and protocol,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> which is their effort to spread their approach to social networking beyond the bounds of the Facebook website, allowing a broader network or "graph" of connections between Facebook users, and between Facebook users and the Internet data objects which interest them. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Peer-to-peer/wCCdPb0H">peer-to-peer</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Distributed_system/o5nyhqTF">distributed system</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English (Presentations)". Digital Inspiration. May 30, 2009. Archived from the original on June 3, 2009. Retrieved July 25, 2016. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090603022159/https://www.labnol.org/internet/web-3-concepts-explained/8908/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20090603022159/https://www.labnol.org/internet/web-3-concepts-explained/8908/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Tim Berners-Lee (2007-11-21). "Giant Global Graph". DIG. Archived from the original on July 13, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2016. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160713021037/http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160713021037/http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Tim Berners-Lee (2007-11-21). "Giant Global Graph". DIG. Archived from the original on July 13, 2016. Retrieved July 25, 2016. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160713021037/http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160713021037/http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/215</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Paul Miller (November 26, 2007). "Analysis of Recent Blogs". Nodalities. Archived from the original on December 1, 2007. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071201102224/http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2007/11/who_is_afraid_of_the_ggg.php" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20071201102224/http://blogs.talis.com/nodalities/2007/11/who_is_afraid_of_the_ggg.php</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Comparison of WWW vs. GGG with Data vs. Objects". Web 3.0. November 25, 2007. Retrieved July 25, 2016. <a href="http://web3next.blogspot.com/2007/11/ggg-www-123.html" target="_blank">http://web3next.blogspot.com/2007/11/ggg-www-123.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>"Facebook F8: One graph to rule them all". CNET. April 21, 2010. Retrieved July 25, 2016. <a href="https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-f8-one-graph-to-rule-them-all/" target="_blank">https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-f8-one-graph-to-rule-them-all/</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>