25 things you might not know about the web on its 25th birthday.

There where so many things that intrigued me about  this article, I would like to share some of them. The idea that not everything on the internet is free or open is very true, but I also think this statement is over exaggerated. Today the biggest web corporations use open source including Google, Facebook and Twitter, … Continue reading →

Nugget #2

This Nugget is from ” As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush. “There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends. The investigator is staggered by the findings and conclusions of thousands of other workers—conclusions which he cannot find time to grasp, […]

Timeline of the Web

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 […]

Timeline contribution

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 […]

Module 3: Nugget #2

“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 […]

Timeline.

We created a timeline in our class today, each student was asked to contribute 3 articles that contributed to the advent of the web. I added the creation of Facebook, the first Apple, and Bill Gates climb to the top. One that is particularly interesting is the one on Bill Gates, I must admit I … Continue reading →

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