Tools for Information Literacy

Preparations for servers session

on pioneers

Start by watching another pioneer, Doug Englebart, introduce the world to interconnected computers as well as demonstrating the first mouse.

50 YEARS LATER, WE STILL DON'T GRASP THE MOTHER OF ALL DEMOS

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on servers

glance over How Web Servers Work by Marshall Brain, How Stuff Works

You might ask yourself who Marshall Brain is.

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For those of you who use the Windows OS

Install PowerShell SSH on your Windows 10 laptop

Try this on your own, but we will repeat the process in a lab to be sure we all have the functionality.

1. Right Click the Start Menu
2. Select App and Features
3. Select Optional Features
4. Click Add Feature
5. Install OpenSSH Client
6. Right click to run SSH
7. And prepare to use it as a terminal application

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Other items relevant to today's class

1. Who invented the first computer?
2. Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Explain UNIX (Bell Labs)
3. BLESS BELL LABS — Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure
4. an old video about UNIX
5. The Quest for a Universal Translator for Old, Obsolete Computer Files

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