This is partially me
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Who am I?
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- Expert in some fields in IT (Relational databases, Web UI, Architecture and framework development)
- Physics enthusiast (electricity, mechanics, maybe a bit of quantum mechanics, but I'm scared of it)
- Biology and chemistry geek (I like to dissect mosquitoes under a microscope)
- Truth seeker, skeptic, idealist
Why am I here?
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I like explaining things that I know. I love watching people study. I literally have a mental orgasm when I see someone younger than me excelling higher than I ever could. When I grew up I had no internet, the local libraries had books older than 10 years, and most of what I wanted to know was inaccessible. I grabbed every encyclopedia I could lay my hands on and devour it, burning the pages with my eyesight. I wanted to know more about our bodies, about how we got here, who walked on the same ground that I do, who held this coin in my collection, who were my direct ancestors, what they did, why does the sun shine, why does the moon face us with the same side, why are the thick clouds black etc.
I could only afford internet when I was a student, and even then, with the dial-up, I remember planning my every internet session, so when I connected, I started loading all the resources, save them and study them offline. There was no Wikipedia then. We had to look for information through Yahoo! directories or something similar (no Google either). It was unreliable, and links often lead to websites with malware. I saw Wikipedia results rise slowly to the top of the search engines. Even before that, I started looking for information specifically on Wikipedia, instead of just the search engine.
Wikipedia, because it offers each one of us the possibility to share, for endless eternity and an unlimited public, our accumulated knowledge that we're proud of, is probably the best thing that happened to the internet after search engines. With it, I feel I have the world under my fingertips. But it's far from perfect. There are articles that have frustrating misleading information, or are incomplete. Some articles are absent.
I've read countless articles, but only written or completed a few.
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