Editing Enquire Within upon Everything (section)

== History ==
[[File:First Web Server.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|A copy of the book near the [[NeXTcube]] used by [[Tim Berners-Lee]] as the first [[Web server]] on the [[World Wide Web]], on display at [[Microcosm (CERN)|Microcosm]], the [[science museum]] at [[CERN]]]]

The early editions of this book contained 3,000 short pithy descriptions and was one of a set of 20 books.<ref name="oxford" />
The book was a popular addition to the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] (and later post-Victorian) home. By 1862, the book was sold 196,000 times;<ref name="oxford">{{cite web |title=History of the Web |url= http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/primers/history/origins.htm |publisher=Oxford Brookes University |access-date=20 November 2010 |date=2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100925204436/http://www.w3c.rl.ac.uk/primers/history/origins.htm |archive-date=25 September 2010}}</ref> by the 89th edition, some 1,180,000 copies had been published. With the release of the 113th edition, this number had risen to over 1,500,000 and by 1976 was in its 126th edition.<ref name="Van de Walle">{{cite book |last1=Van de Walle |first1=Étienne |last2=Renne |first2=Elisha P. |title=Regulating Menstruation: Beliefs, Practices, Interpretations |publisher=University of Chicago Press |date=2001 |pages=128 |isbn=0-226-84744-6 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=BD6zP-bsnpQC&pg=PA67}}</ref> Modernised versions were still in print as late as 1994.<ref>{{cite news |last=Picardie |first=Justine |title=Etcetera / Home Thoughts |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/etcetera-home-thoughts-1370709.html |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Enquire Within upon Everything: The Ultimate Problem-solver (Helicon General Encyclopedias) |url= https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=21698627830&searchurl=sts%3Dt%26tn%3DEnquire%2BWithin%2BUpon%2BEverything%26sortby%3D17 |work=AbeBooks.com |access-date=30 January 2017}}</ref> Unauthorized reproductions of the first and some subsequent editions, without credit to the original editor and publisher, were made in United States by the New York publisher Garret, Dick & Fitzgerald, under the title ''Inquire Within for Anything You Want to Know''.  Later official editions (some time after 1894) were published by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton Kent & Co.<!--Yes, they punctuated it that way, with no comma after "Hamilton"; "Hamilton Kent" may have been a single partner's double-barrelled surname.-->, also of London.

[[Agatha Christie]] used ''Enquire Within upon Everything'' as an important clue in the  [[Hercule Poirot]] detective novel, ''[[Hallowe'en Party]]''.<!--Don't {{fact}}-tag this; books are their own sources.-->

In 1980 [[Tim Berners-Lee]] named his precursor of the [[World Wide Web]] [[ENQUIRE]] after this work.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/interactive/2009/oct/23/internet-arpanet|title=A people's history of the internet: from Arpanet in 1969 to today|author=Simon Jeffery|author2=Chris Fenn|author3=Bobbie Johnson|author4=Elliot Smith|author5=John Coumbe|name-list-style=amp|date=23 October 2009|work=The Guardian|pages=See 1980|access-date=7 January 2010|location=London}}</ref><ref name="Finkelstein">{{cite web |url=http://www.open2.net/ictportal/app/comp_life/future1.htm |title=Enquire Within upon Everything |last=Finkelstein |first=Anthony |date=15 August 2003 |work=ICT Portal |publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=7 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20030621233742/http://www.open2.net/ictportal/app/comp_life/future1.htm |archive-date=June 21, 2003}}</ref> A ''[[Forbes]]'' article quoted Berners-Lee as saying:<ref>{{cite news |last1=Press |first1=Gil |title=A Very Short History of the Internet and the Web |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2015/01/02/a-very-short-history-of-the-internet-and-the-web-2/5/#1a950bb133e2 |work=[[Forbes]] |access-date=30 January 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203023042/https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2015/01/02/a-very-short-history-of-the-internet-and-the-web-2/5/#1a950bb133e2 |archive-date=3 February 2017 }}</ref>

{{blockquote|When I first began tinkering with a software program that eventually gave rise to the idea of the World Wide Web, I named it Enquire, short for "Enquire Within upon Everything", a musty old book of Victorian advice I noticed as a child in my parents' house outside London. With its title suggestive of magic, the book served as a portal to a world of information, everything from how to remove clothing stains to tips on investing money.}}