jamais un sans deux or the hisory of the internet by geeks
The readings assigned for this beautiful third week of this semester of higher education was, I found, closely related to the readings of last week......
What I just read is the history of the internet from a geek's point of view. I learned a couple extra things by taking the online quiz, where I got the oustanding grade of 30%, like the material of the first computer mouse......wood!! haha! The reading was more centered on the effect that the internet had on companies and how smart computers geeks used their geeky brain to understand before others (less geeky I suppose) that they could form multi-million companies out of this new technology.... A thing that I learned which was quickly mentionned is the fact that the internet is the product of "thousands of people" back to the summary.... As I was saying these groups of geeks got together and developped on their own and together new protocols, and other technologies which helped considerably the devolpment of computers and the internet. Without them I would not be able to talk about it the way I am doing it right now. That is talking to myself in front of a screen....Hell! I would not even be studying what I am studying now....Because if you read my bio page you would know that I would be one of the last one to develop such things....and to even think about such a process. back to the summary.... Along with the refreshing history lesson, I learned the existence of the influential Rep. Frederick Boucher from Virginia who helped develop internet commecialism with his bill drafted to the US congress.
Overall I would say that even though I knew a fair share of this history, it was interesting to re read it, because the more details we know about something, the clearer the image is....Today my image got clearer when I learnt that it was Microsoft who copied on Netscape simply for profit making....and not for the urge to benefit global commuinication....hahaha! Ce soir je te paye un coup poto!
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/
What I just read is the history of the internet from a geek's point of view. I learned a couple extra things by taking the online quiz, where I got the oustanding grade of 30%, like the material of the first computer mouse......wood!! haha! The reading was more centered on the effect that the internet had on companies and how smart computers geeks used their geeky brain to understand before others (less geeky I suppose) that they could form multi-million companies out of this new technology.... A thing that I learned which was quickly mentionned is the fact that the internet is the product of "thousands of people" back to the summary.... As I was saying these groups of geeks got together and developped on their own and together new protocols, and other technologies which helped considerably the devolpment of computers and the internet. Without them I would not be able to talk about it the way I am doing it right now. That is talking to myself in front of a screen....Hell! I would not even be studying what I am studying now....Because if you read my bio page you would know that I would be one of the last one to develop such things....and to even think about such a process. back to the summary.... Along with the refreshing history lesson, I learned the existence of the influential Rep. Frederick Boucher from Virginia who helped develop internet commecialism with his bill drafted to the US congress.
Overall I would say that even though I knew a fair share of this history, it was interesting to re read it, because the more details we know about something, the clearer the image is....Today my image got clearer when I learnt that it was Microsoft who copied on Netscape simply for profit making....and not for the urge to benefit global commuinication....hahaha! Ce soir je te paye un coup poto!
http://www.pbs.org/opb/nerds2.0.1/
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