by jnelson | Sep 25, 2020 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items, News, Our Blog
Technical jargon can often be confusing to ordinary users, and with all the hype surrounding mobile telephones can particularly dizzying. Advertisers nowadays talk excitedly about “5G” and how that is superior to “4G”, for instance, as if everybody understands exactly...
by jnelson | Jun 24, 2020 | How the Net Works, Our Blog, Resources, Tips and Tricks, Web Development
While everyone was busy playing with their shiny new smartphones, a revolution in web design happened. Few people noticed it, which is fine because they were not supposed to – in fact, the entire point of the change was to make web content more easily readable and...
by jnelson | May 27, 2020 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items, Our Blog, Resources, Tutorials, Web Development
The internet has become an essential utility of the modern world – such a part of the functioning of our global society that the very name has lost its capitalization. Like other basic services such as electric power, telephone, water, and sewage, the internet’s real...
by jnelson | Feb 21, 2020 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items, News, Our Blog
Every day there’s more exciting news about self-driving automobiles. Unfortunately, much of it is bad.
by jnelson | Oct 5, 2019 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items, Our Blog
Cosmic rays are not the only hazards that constantly threaten integrated circuits and chips. There are weird effects of pure metals “growing” or “dying” straight out of an alchemist’s manual that are equally dangerous. And like the danger...
by jnelson | Sep 5, 2019 | How the Net Works, News, Our Blog
Cosmic rays – the very name sounds like a futuristic beam weapon from a new sci-fi movie. But cosmic rays are quite real: powerful atomic particles hurled at near the speed of light by titanic explosions across the depths of intergalactic space. A hail of them, blown...