How the Web Works

Many the miles

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The quest: to spend an hour clicking on links and letting the internet take me on a journey. Here were the stops along the way: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/spring-fever/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/obama-to-talk-up-gun-measures-at-town-hall-tonight/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/in-2016-clinton-and-sanders-turn-to-gop-rivals-to-woo-democrats/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/whats-ahead-in-the-long-long-road-to-the-2016-presidential-election/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/16-global-developments-you-should-be-on-the-look-out-for-in-2016/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/oregon-residents-in-packed-town-hall-want-armed-militia-to-leave/ http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/for-disabled-children-making-the-world-a-custom-fit-out-of-cardboard/ I think the biggest thing that I learned from this exercise was how it’s difficult to leave a website once you’ve entered it. […]

Associative Trails Exercise: “Zora Neale Hurston”

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So, today is the 125th birthday of influential author Zora Neale Hurston. So, I looked her up. http://time.com/4160190/zora-neale-hurston-birthday/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0406265/ http://www.imdb.com/media/rm378181120/tt0406265?ref_=tt_pv_md_1 http://time.com/vault/issue/1937-09-20/page/87/ https://twitter.com/search?q=zora+neale+hurston&ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Esearch http://time.com/4160190/zora-neale-hurston-birthday/?xid=tcoshare These links start with an essay about the impact of Hurston’s works, as they’ve been made into movies and other adaptations. This also led to my looking at another influential novel by … Continue reading Associative Trails Exercise: “Zora Neale Hurston”

Associative trails

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E-commerce In this generation, the technology are so advanced that our fantasies and imagination can become reality. We live in the era where technology rule our everyday life. Everything about the world can be find using our finger tips on that small screen. We used technology on everything we do, especially in United States and […]

To friends…

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Hi all, My name is Nguyen Nguyen (or you can call me May) – an undergraduate at Austin College (AC) in Sherman, Texas. Originally, I am from Vietnam which is on the other half of the Earth… not to far. I am majoring in Communication and Business Finance as I am interested in becoming a wedding…

associative trails

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Hello! So for my “Associative Trails” assignment for How the Web Works, I had absolutely no idea where to start. I Googled “behavioral neuroscience” and could only find journals and the Wikipedia page, so I decided to start at Wikipedia to see where the external links took me. I wound up at a news page for biopsychology, […]

“Nugget” Asignment

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“Often when schools talk to students about their presence on the Web, they do so in terms of digital citizenship: what students need to know in order to use technology “appropriately.” Schools routinely caution students about the things they post on social media, and the tenor of this conversation — particularly as translated by the media — is often … Continue reading “Nugget” Asignment →

First blog Post

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First blog post   My name is Mang Lian, and I’m currently attending my first year of college at Austin College. I major in international economic and finance. Playing soccer is my hobby and I like watching Drama and TV shows. Ever since I start my first year of college I realized I wanted to […]

Wandering Cyberspace for Outer Space

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So for the next part of the website class I had to track my wanderings through the internet of something I’m interested in. So I decided to look up faster-than-light travel on Google. Here is where the breadcrumb trail led. First post to use the Read More feature. NASA Tau Zero https://tauzero.aero/about/who/ https://tauzero.aero/interstellar_organizations https://tauzero.aero/discoveries-log/getting-there/starship-designs/engineered-starships/ https://tauzero.aero/discoveries-log/getting-there/starship-designs/propulsion-ideas/ … Continue reading Wandering Cyberspace for Outer Space →

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