By Rudolf Ammann
Presented at Hypertext 2009
30 June 2009, Torino, Italy

Working from the online archival record, this paper aims to reconstruct the emergence at Jorn Barger’s initiative of the weblog community from a predecessor known as the NewsPage Network.

"What is claimed is: 1. A method for lofting and cutting a flat starting blank in a plane and for transforming the starting blank by compounding into a plate to be applicable to a specified patch on a surface having non-zero Gaussian curvature, said surface representing a 3-D shell structure to be fabricated by assembling plates comprising:"