The Internet from Rocks — A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet
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The Internet from Rocks — A High Level Explanation of Computers and the Internet
I believe the common prevailing metaphor—the internet as cloud—is problematic. The internet is not one all-encompassing, mysterious, and untouchable thing. (In early patent drawings depicting the internet, it appears as related shapes: a blob, brain, or explosion.) These metaphors obfuscate the reality that the internet is made up of individual nod... See more
Laurel Schwulst • My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
You’d be able not only to “read” from the Internet but to “write” to it as well—just as you’ve always been able to read from and write to your PC’s hard drive. The World Wide Web would turn into the World Wide Computer.
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
- An idealistic young software programmer named Tim Berners-Lee, working in an office at CERN, the big European physics laboratory straddling the border between Switzerland and France, is writing the codes that will deliver the Internet to the people.
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
“read, write, own” web | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
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I’ve recently begun to visit the internet. There, I’ve found cement, metal gates, water tanks, miles of solar farms, buzzing wires, fiber optic trenches, and towers. Data centers, often hidden from the everyday ‘user,’ house rows of blinking servers containing the vast contents of our digital lives. Inside these electronics lie conductive materials... See more
Kelley O’Leary • Elemental Internet
network. In effect, the web was an infinite database, a sort of crazily expanding universe of human knowledge that, in theory, could hold every insight, thought, image, and product for sale.