by jnelson | Jun 24, 2020 | How the Net Works
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, Resources, Tutorials
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
Every day there’s more exciting news about self-driving automobiles. Unfortunately, much of it is bad. This is to be expected in testing radical new technology in complicated, real-life environments. The shift from horse-drawn carriages to Model T Fords was not...
by jnelson | Oct 5, 2019 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items
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
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...
by jnelson | Feb 6, 2019 | How the Net Works, News
Fifteen years ago, Facebook was born in a dorm room at Harvard. Unheralded and little noticed at first, Mark Zuckerberg’s baby took over the campus with surprising rapidity. First Harvard, then the Ivy League, then high schools, and by September 2006, the world....
