Tools for Information Literacy

Preparations for servers session

Watch on pioneers

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

on servers

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

You might ask yourself who Marshall Brain is.

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