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Information interchange on the web

I have always wanted to publish what I learn in class on the web. Except for cases of very limited success, this wish has never been materialized. The major hurdle that I have faced is really to do with feeding the content into the computer. As a student of engineering, I believe the best way to convey the ideas is through a mix of sentences, illustrations and equations. Had it been only for sentences, it would not have been a problem at all - many of us can type in text faster than we can write with the pen. Unfortunately, bringing an illustrations or an equations in my mind to the computer using direct input, will take much much more time than, say, writing it down on paper and then scanning it in.


(At this stage, I would like to gratefully remember all those authors on the web who had put in lot of their time and effort to bring out the millions of beautiful illustrations and equations that are already on the web.)

This is where, I feel that the web has a long way to go. Hopefully in a few decades, publishing my notes on the web would become as easy as writing it on paper.
Edit: Perhaps, I need not wait for those long decades, using a tablet and the stylus one can jot down the notes on the computer directly.

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