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How does the Internet Course Work? Awesomely!

Today’s class was awesome. The summer edition of the Internet Course is proving pretty epic, and this morning was a good example as to why. Last Friday we decided we were going to create a site to try and explain how … Continue reading

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The Internet Course on LSD

Last Wednesday while the Internet Course was sharing where we’re at with the timeline, one of UMW’s fine art professors, Carole Garmon, dropped by class and asked if she could stay. Why not? While we were talking about internet related events during … Continue reading

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An Internet Timeline

We’re just starting week 3 of the 5 week summer iteration of the Internet Course. It’s been intense (a Repo Man’s life is always intense), but also awesome! Last week we collaboratively built the first of four projects this course … Continue reading

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Like Punched Cards in the System

Tim Owens pointed me to the 1964 IBM promotional/instructional video “Once Upon a Punchcard”. It is yet another video in a growing collection of media resources for the Internet Course I’m teaching alongside Paul Bond this summer. This one is … Continue reading

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Internet History: Watch the Movie

One of the things I am excited about this go around with the Internet Course are all the resources I’m finding thanks to awesome folks like Alan Levine and Micahel Berman. In the comments of my last post, Alan linked me … Continue reading

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Computers before the Web

@jimgroom KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS: http://t.co/XnRsEVWPwa this is so funny, you’ll like it — Sebastiano (@SebaDT11) May 26, 2014 My brother-in-law sent me the above tweet this morning, knowing I’ve been ensconced in computer history the last few months. … Continue reading

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You’ve Got the Network Inside Out

One of the anecdotes related in The Wizards that Stay Up Late that I love occurs during a meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1967. It was a meeting of all of ARPA‘s principal investigators intended to hash out the architecture of what … Continue reading

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Alan Kay: Doing with Images Makes Symbols

I have to thank Michael Berman for sharing a link in this comment to a 1987 video featuring Alan Kay discussing the history of computer interface design. It’s really an excellent history lesson in the development of human interfaces for computers. He … Continue reading

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#tic104: Wrapping Week 1, Look Forward to Week 2

We covered a lot in class today, and that goes for week 1 more generally. I’ll be writing a separate post about our discussion of chapter 2 of Where the Wizards Stay Up Late, so this post will mainly be … Continue reading

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Computer Networks – The Heralds Of Resource Sharing (Arpanet, 1972)

While writing my last post about today’s discussion in the Internet Course, I stumbled upon this 1972 gem of a documentary by Steven King (not that Steven King) about the formation of ARPANET. It’s 30 minutes long and features many of the minds behind … Continue reading

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