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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Amanda French

Amanda French

Table of keyboard shortcuts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Here's a useful list of keyboard shortcuts -- I'll put one or two (no more than that) from the "General Shortcuts" section on the test. I'll list them in the study guide, as well.
Amanda French

The Rise And Fall of the ARPANET (1969-1989) in One GIF - 0 views

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    An animated GIF of the expansion of ARPANET! Almost want to make this the avatar for the Diigo group instead ...
Amanda French

The Internet's Save-the-Date: A Tiny Item in a UCLA Student Newspaper - 1 views

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    An item from UCLA's school newspaper from 1969 reporting that "A computer facility here will become the first station in a nation-wide network which, for the first time, will link together computers of different makes and using different machine languages."
Amanda French

Diigo - Tools - 1 views

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    Here are some tools that make adding a bookmark to Diigo easier. Particularly recommended for new users is the "Diigolet," which you can drag to your Bookmarks bar ("Favorites" in some browsers) and use to quickly share links with the group by clicking "Diigolet" then "Bookmark" then "Share to group."
Amanda French

Twenty years of a free, open web - Cern - 0 views

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    Can't resist sharing this -- found it from Stephanie's "Oldest website on the Internet" link. Great short history of the web. "http://first-website.web.cern.ch" Note that it links to the "first" website at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html , which is not the same as the "oldest" one that Stephanie linked to -- I think the one Stephanie posted was a demonstration site, but not a "real" site, so I agree that it's older. :)
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Brief History of the Internet - Internet Timeline | Internet Society - 2 views

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    A brief history of the Internet written by some of its founders. From the website of the Internet Society.
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W3Schools Online Web Tutorials - 0 views

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    A full, handy reference for HTML and CSS. Allows you to try out the code in the browser.
Amanda French

Local area network - Wikimedia Commons - 1 views

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    Definition of a LAN, with pictures. The Internet can be thought of as a network of LANs.
Amanda French

File:Arpanet 1974.svg - Wikimedia Commons - 1 views

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    I've added a new avatar for our course Diigo group. It's based on a 1974 map of ARPAnet, the first "network of networks," and thus the precursor of today's Internet. I got it from Wikimedia Commons, which is a great source for all kinds of media that you're allowed to reproduce on the Internet.
Amanda French

http://www.mr-ideahamster.com/howto/assets/poguebasics.pdf - 1 views

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    The New York Times website is down today (by some reports it's because Syrian hackers have attacked it), but here's a (probably illegal) copy of a helpful column on "Tech Tips for the Basic Computer User" by the New York Times's technology reviewer, David Pogue. This documents also contains all the comments. All 1149 of them. :) Many of those comments have helpful tips as well. Even though this was published in 2008, it's still helpful.
Amanda French

History of the Internet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Wikipedia page about the History of the Internet that I showed in class. Note that the first Internet connection (really, the first ARPANET connection) was made between UCLA and Stanford -- most early work on the Internet was done at universities and was funded by government grants. It was only after the launch of the Web in the early 90s that businesses began devoting resources to the Internet and the Web.
Amanda French

Help and FAQ - W3C - 0 views

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     The World Wide Web Consortium's definition of the difference between the Web and the Internet is understandably technical. It annoys me that there's a typo in which "TCP/IP" is misspelled "TPC/IP". Way to confuse people. 
Amanda French

Computer History Museum - Internet History - 0 views

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    A timeline of the Internet (with portraits!) from the Computer History Museum. This timeline begins in 1962 and ends in 1992 with the invention of the World Wide Web -- or, rather (though I'd say it's the same thing), with the 1992 invention of the first web browser, Mosaic, at the University of Illinois.
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As We May Think - 0 views

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    An article often cited as "inventing" the web, or at least the idea of it. Vannevar Bush worked in information intelligence during the Second World War, and his work in that field led him to conceive of a better way of finding and managing information. I don't know that the web has really solved that, though!
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History of the Internet - YouTube - 0 views

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    This animated video is British, and that affects some of its perspective (Internet history books will tell you more about the American side), but it's particularly good for showing the structure of the Internet.
Amanda French

Digital History | Getting Started - 0 views

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    This book, Digital History, exists in print form as well, but it is entirely available for free on the open web. It is written for historians who want to "go digital," so you as undergrads (and not necessarily History majors!) aren't exactly its audience, but the book is nevertheless excellent as an introduction to the underpinnings of the internet and the web.
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