An English professor of mine once said that in our field “you can say just about anything you like, as long as you say it well.” As an English major, I am fairly comfortable with most aspects of “thinking like a Historian” as discussed in Wednesday night’s lecture and the online readings. Bias is a […]
Archive for January, 2014
Concepts you need to know to understand how the internet works.
uniform resource locator/URL web page HyperText Markup Language (HTML) server client web browser HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) source code streaming downloading database XML ISP Internet Protocol address Domain Name System (DNS) top-level domain (TLD) second-level domain (SLD) RSS, or Really Simple Syndication Mainframe IMP Interface Subnet Packet Switching Packets router
