In The Road Not Taken<\/em>, Robert Frost arrives at a fork where he must pick one road to travel. Looking down each as far as he can, he chooses the second. He then confides to the reader,<\/p>\n \nOh, I kept the first for another day! <\/p>\n An internet researcher faces much the same situation: one site can lead to another, then more may link from it. You might even visit a page but not read much of it, only to save it as a bookmark “for another day” – knowing, just like Frost intimates, that you’ll unlikely return.<\/p>\n Today I began looking through the bookmarks that I’ve accumulated on the main computer. I rediscover so many links to great sites that I recall finding, but didn’t follow up. Time is limited, and the topic that was urgent that day soon gave way to another.<\/p>\n On the internet, we’ve all joined the company of Robert Frost in a way perhaps unimaginable when he wrote The Road Not Taken<\/em> circa 1915. With so many pages acting as nodes to groups of others, the internet surfer faces choice after choice, leaving by far most pages – and the ones that would follow – unexplored.<\/p>\n Source:<\/p>\n Smith, Philip (editor). 100 Best-Loved Poems<\/i>. New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1995.<\/p>\n www.poets.org<\/a><\/p>\n
\nYet knowing how way leads on to way,
\nI doubted if I should ever come back.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n