by jnelson | Sep 10, 2021 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items
That the internet is a revolutionary technology is a cliché by now. Indeed, the signs of this change are all around us, in the smartphones which so many constantly clutch and social media that shares and shapes opinions, not to mention having instant access to vast...
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 | Mar 12, 2014 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items
Along with Southwest Cyberport’s Twentieth Anniversary, there’s another important one this March, one which made our birthday and so much else possible: that of the Web itself. The World Wide Web was first proposed in March of 1989. Tim Berners-Lee, a...
by jnelson | Nov 30, 2012 | How the Net Works, Interesting Items
Future space explorers, both robotic and human, now have a new way to communicate with each other – by the Internet. While email has been used for some time from low Earth orbit, and astronauts have even posted to Facebook and Twitter, the actual connections utilize...
by jnelson | Jun 13, 2012 | Events, How the Net Works, News
The world passed a significant milestone on June 6, and no one noticed the great sigh of relief that went up around the world. And that’s just the way it should be. On that day, World IPv6 Launch Day, the new Internet addressing system, was successfully put to...
