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Internet has revolutionized our current culture and that is what this article seeks to point out. We can do just about anything on the internet, and now scientists are using this to their advantage. In this article scientists are using the internet and games that are associated with their research and allowing their participants in these games (regular internet users) to do their crowdsourcing research for them. Internet allows these scientists to take advantage of the system, so to speak.

This article focuses on the internet users means for obtaining media via an online archive. The Internet Archive gave peer-to-peer file sharing a major boost by making an array of media immediately available as onBitTorrent for downloading content. By using this means of getting media and other data, users are offered a faster delivery regardless of internet connection.

With the use of digitizing media, NASA and Internet Archive are teaming up to scan films and photographs into an online database where their information can be stored and accessed with easy use. Making this kind of information available online, NASA believes, is important to catagorizing information and storing it for effiecient use. Internet Archive will be using a new system where the media catagorized by historical significance.

This article discusses Internet Archive's newest archive that allows researchers "both in and out of the classroom" to look at news over a timeline. Much like the Wayback Machine, this archive has a collection of over 350,000 news broadcasts that allows the exploration of their resources and the viewing of TV news broadcasts just by searching.

A newer, faster, more reliable version of internet is coming: IPv6. It's coming and most of us didn't even know that it existed in the first place. Basically this article is about the "World IPv6 Launch Day" and that all major coorporations will be involved without a single "everyday" internet user having any idea.

This website is used to archive any information, like personal work, including texts, websites, pictures, audio, and video. I recently used this site for a Tech Comm project and it stores anything you want. to put onto the internet. It allows fellow users to access the things you want to archive and share.

Richard E. Miller, an English professor at Rutgers University, gives a presentation to the Rutgers University Board of Governors on Digital Humanities. He argues that the English department is moving towards that of Digital Humanities due in large part to the internet becoming increasingly involved in English and humanities education. His presentation defines and discusses Web 2.0 (the web as used for creation rather than just research) and how the use of things such as Wikipedia, blogs, etc. are pushing everyone towards creation-mode on the internet. Through this presentation, Miller hopes to convince the Board of Governors to allow for the creation of a Digital Humanities department at Rutgers University.

The Creator is a film that personifies computers in the future to ask where it is they came from and trace their lineage back to a man named Alan Turing, who first asked the question, "Can Machines Think?" After the viewing of the film top computers scientist will have open discussions concerning the questions and concerns this film brings up.

This article attempts to survey the history and turn up the evidence of who actually invented the internet. Who were its' pioneers? And what was the driving force behing it all, what is the history here?

The World Science Festival has attempted to to make a video to explain a new technology that will supposedly revolutionize the internet. This video allows you to vitually experience this new software and take it for a "virtual test drive."

With the advancement of Digital Humanities and the ability to digitize text, this article talks about Brewster Kahle, the creator of Internet Archive and the home to thousands of books, journals, media, etc. Claiming to be a digital librarian, Internet Archive is an online database, much like Wayback Machine, where users can access out-of-print and out-of-copyrighted works. Kahle believes it is important to digitize these texts because one day they may not be available to the public anymore.

After playing around on the Wayback Machine website in class, I wanted to know more about the site. In this article, we see the man behind the creation of the Wayback Machine site and what exactly the site contains. This archive allows for users to browse through over 160 billions webpages, going as far back as 1996, and keeps the internet past preserved in his online archive. This storage system is reliable and effiecient for users and is really quite interesting to browse through some of our favorite and popular sites today.

Alex Wright introduces the idea of the radiated library. This system would allows acess to all the world's communication systems at one time, similar to the internet, but on a macro-scale. Books, magazines, films, music, etc. would all be readily acessible simultaneously.

Cryptography is the art of being able to encrypt coding onto computers. But what has this "art" done to the safety of our information online. If this information is put into the wrong hands, it could be devistating to someone whose information (and most of ours is now days) on the internet. This article brings up the importance of safe guarding our information against those who could potentially attempt to steal it.

To prepare for a digital discussion Sean Morris gathered information containing education technology that shows new ways to communicate and new organizational tools. In the beginning of his teaching career him and a coworker created a paperless class that forced students to turn in assignments online; eventually turning it into a fully online course. Educational technology classrooms are created worldwide to use new modern ways to teach. Through online learning, students can use smaller parts to create a bigger picture which are then small parts for the collaboration of all the students work that is brought together. He leaves the readers with many questions about how to make the information accessible and accurate across the internet.

Focusing mainly on Science, Technology, and Medicine, open access eprints allow authors of published research papers or paper to archive their literary work. This allows for others to peer-review their work and allows for their work to be used as a research tool. The works are organized and easily abled to be searched.

After making millions from his internet inventions, this article from Forbes, discusses how Brewster Kahle and Google are constantly butting heads. Brewster Kahle believes that his open access of books restricts Google from having optimum control over data, such as texts. Most of the scans that are available in Kahle's Archive, are from Google. Although Kahle has been compiling his library since 1996, Google was not incorporated until 1998. Kahle's Archive is now offering a service called Bookserver that allows anyone to upload their literary texts and loan it to others.

This article explains the dispute between Google and publishers here in the United States. As we have seen in class, Google Books offers internet users the ability to search through their database of scanned books. Publishers are fighting that Google is violating copyright laws by scanning these books and letting people have free open access. Although the project itself is causing an uproar, publishers as well as authors are being given the opportunity to decide what books are included in this project.