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This is an article from the Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert. I clicked on it interested in how architecture was seen and got a quick history lesson!
the R.F.C.’s themselves took root and flourished. They became the formal method of publishing Internet protocol standards
Less important than the content of those first documents was that they were available free of charge and anyone could write one. Instead of authority-based decision-making, we relied on a process we called “rough consensus and running code.”
It probably helped that in those days we avoided patents and other restrictions; without any financial incentive to control the protocols, it was much easier to reach agreement.
This was the ultimate in openness in technical design and that culture of open processes was essential in enabling the Internet to grow and evolve as spectacularly as it has
we always tried to design each new protocol to be both useful in its own right and a building block available to others. We did not think of protocols as finished products, and we deliberately exposed the internal architecture to make it easy for others to gain a foothold.
Stephen D. Crocker explains the early planning documents ("Requests for Comments") and how they exemplified and made possible the open nature of the web.
Over 13,000 exhibits were displayed and viewed by over 6,200,000 visitors to the
exhibition.
The London Borough of Bromley, who own the park today, together with the
Crystal Palace Foundation, have recently submitted an outline proposal the
National Heritage Lottery Fund to restore much of the park to its former glory.
The Crystal Palace itself was destroyed by fire on November 30th 1936,
following which the area lost much of its focus and began to decline. But many
of the most important events in the history of the Crystal Palace took place in
the grounds, which retain much of their original overall layout today and are a Grade II listed historic park.
The park also contained unrivaled collections of statues, many of which were
copies of great works from around the world, and a geological display which
included a replica lead mine and the first attempts anywhere in the world to
portray life-size restorations of extinct animals, including dinosaurs.
This "bigger and better" building was divided into a series of courts
depicting the history of art and architecture from ancient Egypt through
the Renaissance, as well as exhibits from industry and the natural world.
The Crystal Palace was originally designed by Sir Joseph Paxton in only 10 days
and was a huge iron goliath with over a million feet of glass.
The Great Exhibition of 1851 in London was conceived to symbolize this
industrial, military and economic superiority of Great Britain.