#howthewebworks

Nugget Assignment 2

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The web is largely powered by huge server farms located all over the world that need large quantities of electricity for computers and cooling. (Not to mention the carbon footprint and natural resource costs of the construction of these installations.) Nobody really knows what the overall environmental impact of the web is, but it’s definitely […]

“Timeline Post”

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So we made this thing… If you’re reading this blog, then you’re probably part of that “we,” but do you know which parts are mine? Well, okay, they’re the ones tagged with my initials, so that should be obvious… Specifically, I wrote slides about CYCLADES, coining the term “surfing the Internet,” and the first RFC. I think … Continue reading ““Timeline Post””

Importance of the web

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Recently, our class was instructed to contribute to shared-knowledge timeline, in which everyone had to contribute three items of significant events in the internet’s history. For this assignment, I decided to find some fundamentals of the internet that would have been important to the technology we have today. The three events that I had found […]

the Nugget 3 assignment

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When you send someone, or a group, some useful resource, or an idea via email, how many people gain from that? Is that information easily recoverable? Addressable? Email is the black hole of information, it is where ideas go to shrivel up and die. Alan Levine, “The Question Should Be, Why You Are ‘Not’ Blogging”

Nugget Assignment #2

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“Writers like Nick Carr are convinced that it is. He thinks that fewer people engage in contemplative activities because the web distracts them so much. “With the exception of alphabets and number systems,” he writes, “the net may well be the single most powerful mind-altering technology that has ever come into general use.” But technology […]

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