Building Your Digital Identity, Literacy, and Network
Here’s what I contributed to the class timeline of internet history and a bit of an explanation about each of them: November 21, 1969 — The First ARPANET Link ARPANET was the first real precursor to the internet. Funded by the US Department of Defense, ARPANET (which stood for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) was […]
For my contributions to the class internet-history timeline, I chose to do packet-switching technology (1960), the ARPAnet project (1966), and DNS host names (1983). The contribution I would like to[ . . . ]
The Nugget In David Weinberger’s article, The Internet that was (and Still Could Be), he outlines the web’s greatest original attributes and how they have changed under the impact of dominating social media platforms. David describes the internet’s ‘original architecture’ and how the internet we see today still operates through similar principles. The platforms of … Continue reading Three. The Nugget
I came under the weather on Wednesday with a severe migraine and proceeded into two days of a 101+ fever and high heart rate (thus the cause for delays and such). This is also the second domain name/blog that I began for the How the Web Works course, I cancelled the first attempt because it … Continue reading *Temporary Editors Note
Who Am I? My name is Alexandra Guess. I am a senior at Austin College, studying Classical Civilizations and Mathematics. The dream is to become an actuary, and my goal is to have the first two actuarial tests completed within the next six months. I look forward to documenting both my actuarial exam journey and … Continue reading Two.
This nugget is from “Iran’s blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web” by Hossein Derakhshan. “Six years was a long time to be in jail, but it is an entire era online. Writing on the internet had not changed, but reading – or, at least, getting things read – had altered dramatically. I’d […]
Iran’s blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web “Hossein Derakhshan was imprisoned by the regime for his blogging. On his release, he found the internet stripped of its power to change the world and instead serving up a…
“Six years was a long time to be in jail, but it is an entire era online. Writing on the internet had not changed, but reading – or, at least, getting things read – had altered dramatically. I’d been told how essential social networks had become, so I tried to post a link to one […]
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My ambition in life is to have my own startup company, I decided to google app creations first because I hope to have my own app start up company. I have a pretty good idea of what I want to do but I feel like having some more ideas would also be nice. One thing … Continue reading →
