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Tools for Information Literacy ② Clients/protocols/networks

Look over before the Monday lecture

Watch

a short historical discussion of the relationships we will discuss today.

Follow that with this TED talk about the physical part of the Internet

A map of underwater cables may make it more understandable.

If you wish to read more, glance over

  1. The foundations of the cloud: Users of the internet need not think about its physical underpinnings
  2. Towers of glass and steel: Advances in physical storage and retrieval made the cloud possible
  3. There are seven more installments in this series that you may wish to read as well.

Other relevant short articles you may find interesting

  1. 50 years of the Internet: half a century of light and shadow
  2. Lawrence Roberts, Who Helped Design Internet's Precursor, Dies at 81
  3. Paul Baran and the Origins of the Internet
  4. What is the internet? 13 key questions answered
  5. WWW vs. the Internet: What's the Difference?
  6. Internet topology: What does the Internet look like?
  7. It was a really bad month for the internet
  8. The infrastructure mess causing countless internet outages
  9. How A Small ISP in Pennsylvania Tanked a Big Chunk of the Web on Monday
  10. Mary Meeker's most important trends on the internet
  11. Russia wants to cut itself off from the global internet. Here's what that really means.
  12. Russia Takes a Big Step Toward Internet Isolation
  13. The Top 10 Internet Browsers for 2019
  14. Google takes its first steps toward killing the URL
  15. Why There Are Only 13 DNS Root Name Servers
  16. Introduction to How Internet Infrastructure Works
  17. A Hierarchy of Networks
  18. A Network Example
  19. Bridging The Divide
  20. Backbones
  21. Internet Protocol: IP Addresses
  22. Internet Protocol: Domain Name System
  23. Uniform Resource Locators
  24. A DNS Example
  25. Clients and Servers
  26. Ports
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