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Timeline of the Web

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To our history of the web timeline I contributed historic moments in the development of the web such as April 30, 1993 when CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be available to use freely for all relinquishing all intellectual property rights. On august 26, 2006 the now dominant general purpose JavaScript framework jQuery […]

Trivia: A Godly Force Needs a Flaming Horse of Course

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In my first post on this site, I mentioned that the Archangel Gabriel possessed a flaming horse. It is hard to find mention of this horse anywhere except Wikipedia, but with a bit of internet elbow grease he can be found. The horse Haizum, according to some Islamic traditions, was given to God’s gift to … Continue reading Trivia: A Godly Force Needs a Flaming Horse of Course →

Timeline contribution

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The events that I included in our classes History of the Web timeline were the founding of PayPal, the release of FireFox, and the release of PHP. In 1998 PayPal was founded so that people could send money in a safer way on auction sites like ebay. PayPal has made it easier for developers to […]

Timeline Contributions

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Yesterday we worked on a collaborative timeline of the history of the web, and this post is to talk about my contributions to that timeline. My contributions were the slides “Mosaic Comes to Life,” “A Dot-Com Bubble” and “The First YouTube Video.” For our assignment, we’re discussing the significance of one of these contributions, and I’ll be […]

Module 3: Nugget #2

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“It has been jokingly suggested several times during the course of this study that what we are seeking is an “intelligence amplifier.” (The term is attributed originally to W. Ross Ashby. At first this term was rejected on the grounds that in our view one’s only hope was to make a better match between existing […]

How the Web Works Timeline

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For the timeline I contributed with posts about the Internet Web privacy issue in 2012, the Morris worm, and founding of the world wide web. I chose the web privacy issue because I remember when this was happening and I remembered the concern it had caused to many who feared for their privacy. For my […]

Messi wins his 5th Ballon d’Or

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After a great season which included winning the treble and scoring 52 goals and 26 assists in 61 games for club and country in 2015.  , Messi has won his 5th Ballon d’Or, a prestigious award, ahead of his teammate, Neymar, and his rival, Ronaldo. Voting for the Ballon d’Or award is by men’s national team captains […]

Module 3: Timeline

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For my contribution to the timeline, I posted about the Trojan Room coffee pot (1991), the Web’s first viral video (1996), and the invention of the iPhone (2007). The iPhone is easily one of the most significant inventions of all time, not only because of the innovation that took part in creating the device, but […]

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