History

In 1998, two Stanford Ph.D. candidates published a paper describing a search engine they had built. In an appendix, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page took a position on the business model of their competitors.

Two people describe an encounter with something beyond themselves. Their descriptions resemble each other. Perhaps they encountered the same thing. Perhaps one learned the description from the other.

Peoria, Michigan, Los Angeles, Norfolk, Iowa. The list was written down as the outline of a story about disc golf, five places that seemed to belong together without an obvious reason why.