The rhizome metaphor offered by Deleuze and Guattari is extremely accurate, especially when used in context of today's technology. The internet is called the "World Wide Web" for a reason other than alliteration. The way it is structured is similar to a web, or more accurately a rhizome, as it indeed has no start and no end and spans horizontally rather than hierarchal. And like a real rhizome, the seed for further growth of the rhizome is itself, and is helped along by humans, as we discuss and expand.

The internet grows and is structured as a rhizome because that is the way we humans think, and language is also a rhizome not because it is the nature of language but because we use language to express what we think, and since we think in a rhizome thus will our language become one. If you've ever made a brainstorm map (back to elementary school exercises!) you will understand how the human thought process is not vertical and linearly connected, but rather a big interconnected web. I think the rhizome is an extremely important metaphor because it breaks us out of our default thinking of everything as hierarchal, which, as we have seen from Deleuze and Guattari, and also from Borges' Library, is not the case.

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Symbols:

Time: I was going to suggest the face of a clock or watch with no hands, and I see many of my classmates have suggested the same thing. I think this is a good symbol to use because a clock or watch symbolizes time almost universally. Having no hands symbolizes that we can't judge the passing or existence of time, which is accurate according to the readings we've read and discussed.

History: I like the idea of a pair of eyeglasses as Leslie stated, but I was thinking of a Venn Diagram (elementary school again) as there are two ways of viewing history: diachronic, and synchronic. These views are separate but can overlap, as symbolized by the Venn diagram. So I was thinking of a pair of eyeglasses, but with their lenses overlapping like the circles in a Venn diagram.