Some notes:

– cinema privileged narrative as the key cultural expression of the modern age

– in computer science, database is defined as a structured collection of data the data stored in a database are organised for fast search and retrieval by a computer and therefore a database is anything but a simple collection of items

– the open nature of the Web as medium (Web pages are computer files that can always be edited) means that the Web sites never have to be complete; and they rarely are because sites are always growing; thus they are not a story and hence the anti narrative logic of the Web

– database and narrative do not have the same status in computer culture