Biology

I stopped studying biology at school when I was 16. This is partly due to the English education system, which at that time meant that you narrow down to 3 A-Levels (pre-university courses). I chose Philosophy, English Language and Media Studies, and never again studied a STEM subject in a formal setting [sobs].

So I have scant knowledge of spider webs, and wondered if anyone else on the course could help us understand how the world wide web is and isn't like a spider web.

To kick things off, here's a question: Is the circular web (with a spider waiting at the centre) more or less common than webs with no centre?

I find this interesting, because a recognisable pictogram of a spider web would almost certainly take a circular/hexagonal (etc.) form.

See: https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=web

A web with a central point is different to a web without a central point. My understanding is that Tim Berners-Lee thought of the web as something without a centre. Google and Facebook, on the other hand, might prefer to see themselves at the centre of the web.

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