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05.08.2011
Week 2 – ‘History of the Concept of Networks’
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Guess lecture this week! Nathaniel Tkcaz- ‘History of the Concept of Networks’

Here is a link to my class NOTES!

This week's lecture was basically back to back epic storytelling + analysing the "history of Network" from

  • how it all began (WW2 1957) Peter Galison – War against the center, the idea of terminate the center nd VICTORY IS YOURS!! →
  • Inventing the conceptual structure for internet (explanation of the forms of communication)Screen shot 2011-08-05 at 11.04.14 PM
    • The Web evolve from centralised to distributed better:
      • redundancy
      • survivability
      • flexibility
      • Non-hierarchical and digital!!
  • Invention of the once killer app E-mail
  • Invention of the NEW killer app: Web 2.0 (the net Vs the Web)
    • Three components→
      • URL: uniform resource locator
      • HTTP: hypertext transfer protocol
      • HTML: hypertext markup language
  • And finally "Wikipedia!!!" phew.....what a lesson
    • Concepts (such a the network) are historical formations that flow through different fields
    • They inform everything from architecture to reading and writing practices
    • Look to the affordances/capacities and limitations of a medium
    • Pay attention to the relationship between the formal and material qualities of a medium and the reading and writing practices that it makes possible

    • Ps. Some useful quotes from the lecturer!

    Btw a long but useful youtube video that explains talk you through the history of internet IN DETAIL!!!

    03.08.2011
    Week 1: An introduction to the World of Network
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    During week 1, our Lecture introduced to us the outline of this course and introduced us to the concept of Web 2.0.

    Our lecturer Seth Keen used the video below "The Machine is Us/ing Us?" to demonstrate this concept

    It talks about basically how the internet works and links us together. Through hypertext? Social Media?

    The idea of the world's knowledge is a finger click away is quite interesting! However, the most interesting and technical parts in the vide, I believe is watching how fast the guy in the video  Click, type, highlight, delete x100 ...for the entire 4:32 min! Good Job!

    In the Tutorial, Hugh take us through some of the useful websites like:

    • Delicious - Online bookmarking collection, there are some very cool weblink on delicious which would be quite interesting to explore!
    • Google Doc - share your document online, but FB has similar doc share app already
    • Last but not least Dropbox!!! - this is an online cloud service, now through this I can share my music with my friend and sister!! Maybe USB will eventually be taking over by this types of cloud service.