Tag Archives: tic104

Bad Day on the Midway

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Reverend

After exploring Will Crowther’s early Interactive Fiction game from 1976, I somehow found myself thinking about The Residents’s interactive CD-Rom from 1995 Bad Day on the Midway. This was a crazy game, and it is one of the multi-media experiments … Continue reading →

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Early Computer Gaming and the Open Net

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Reverend

One bit from Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon’s Where Wizards Stay Up Late I found particularly interesting was a section of the chapter on E-Mail titled “Adventure and Quasar: The Open Net and Free Speech.” It featured Will Crowther, who … Continue reading →

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Network Randoms

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Reverend

I’m just about finished with Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon’s 1998 1996 history of the creation of the internet Where Wizards Stay Up Late. I’ve been enjoying it thoroughly, and while I was familiar with much of the general history … Continue reading →

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IMPs of Internet History at UCLA

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Reverend

On Wednesday I saw this tweet from Miriam Posner announcing that one of the pioneer developers of the internet, Leonard Kleinrock, was going to lead her students on a tour of the site at UCLA where the internet came to … Continue reading →

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Teaching BitTorrent by Way of Snow Ball Fights

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Reverend

After I wrote this rather emo post about my teaching woes as a result of last Thursday’s class, the follow-up session on Tuesday was awesome. The “How It Works” panel did a phenomenal job of leading the class through a … Continue reading →

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Archie, Veronica, and Other Old Gold Technologies

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Reverend

I’ve been having a lot of fun recently exploring old school technologies as part of The Internet Course I’m teaching alongside Paul Bond. Paul wrote an awesome post a couple of days ago investigating the file-sharing protocol Gopher. I’ve been doing … Continue reading →

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TIC104: Learning from Internet History

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Reverend

This week in The Internet Course we started discussing the topics the class has been researching, summarizing, and conceptualizing for the first three weeks. Five students made up a panel that talked about the History of the Internet from J.C.R. … Continue reading →

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Broadband: Make it a Commodity like…uh…a Pork Belly

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Reverend

I just finished watching the 2005 documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, and it reinforces David Simon’s theory of America as Horror Show. What’s more, it was just a small taste of things to come in 2008 with … Continue reading →

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Analog Futures

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Reverend

Earlier this week I read Vannevar Bush’s seminal 1945 essay “As We May Think.” It was as remarkable as I had heard in terms of his ability to predict the future, and I was amazed at just how many kernels of … Continue reading →

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A Map of the Internet

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Reverend

Paul Bond and I are teaching a course on the itnernet this semester, so I couldn’t resist this beautifully wrought map of the internet designed by JaySimons. I came across it thanks to this post on the OLDaily, and Stephen Downes … Continue reading →

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