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 | Jun 15, 2016 | Events, News
Every now and then, most computers need rebooting. The longer one runs, after all, the more applications and processes are engaged and abandoned. Eventually short-term memory fills up with useless data. The machine slows down, activity and connections may become...
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 | May 15, 2013 | How the Net Works, News
The World Wide Web is nearly a quarter of a century old; but it wasn’t until the browser was invented twenty years ago that it took off. Invented by atomic scientists as a means of sharing their experimental results, for such a young technology it’s surprisingly...
