A web page for all of your favorite social media - 0 views
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Gordon Hall on 08 Nov 13This web site, Rebel Mouse, allows you to post things from all the social media you like to use on one homepage that you can create and edit.
HowStuffWorks "10 Worst Computer Viruses of All Time" - 1 views
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The presentation on the first computer worm on Monday made me want to check out other cases of major computer viruses.
Digital Millennium Copyright Act - 0 views
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This is an article on the DMCA, so it may shine some light on my presentation yesterday on Pinterest and the copyright laws! It is also an interesting read and very informative!
Inspiring Entrepreneurs: What Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has Learned in his Business Career - 0 views
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An interesting article about Reed Hastings and how he came up with the idea of Netflix.
Scanning Center Fire - Please Help Rebuild | Internet Archive Blogs - 0 views
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"Fire in the Scanning Center" is a great caption for a photo. Glad no one was hurt, and that the Internet Archive continues to operate.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine - 0 views
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Don't forget about the Internet Archive and especially the Wayback Machine in your research -- lots of good free stuff here, and you can look at what websites looked like years ago.
Internet Archive's S.F. office damaged in fire - SFGate - 0 views
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Bummer -- the physical location of http://archive.org has been damaged in a fire. The cause was a spark from a scanner. Yikes.
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: DMCA Safe Harbor - 0 views
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Here's a description of the "Safe Harbor" provision of the 1998 DMCA, which allows sites like YouTube and Pinterest to operate without (too much) fear of copyright lawsuits.
Read The Official DMCA Act - 2 views
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It's a big lengthy but here is the DMCA act, if anyone was willing to read it. It's sorted into five sections, each about different issues.
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Thanks, Stephanie. I'll post a link to a bit about the Safe Harbor provision that Pinterest operates under.
Reddit and the Presidential Election - 0 views
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Why some say that Reddit will be more useful in the next presidential election than the news or newspapers. News programs are more likely to cater to their viewers opinions while anyone can post their opinion and debate on Reddit.
Jon Postel's Induction into the Internet Hall of Fame - 0 views
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This is the video of Postel's induction to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012
Library databases vs Search engines - YouTube - 0 views
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A nice little video from A New Zealand library explaining the difference between a search engine and a database. I noticed a bit of confusion about this on exam 2.
How to Laugh Online in Other Languages - 0 views
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We all know the acronyms "lol" and "lmao" and sometimes just use "haha." This article explores how people from other countries express laughter over the Internet.
Here's what the Morris Worm prosecutor thinks about Aaron Swartz - 0 views
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More on Robert Tappan Morris, plus a comparison to Aaron Swartz (whom a few of you know about). Swartz was charged in 2011 or 2012 (I forget which) under the same law Morris was, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and committed suicide in January.
19 Apps to Boost Concentration - 0 views
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These are different app for computers that will help you concentrate on your work rather than being on sites that you shouldn't be. Currently I am using the StayFocused chrome extension to block certain sites when I am working.
$150 third world lap top - 0 views
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NY times article about developing nations and access to affordable technology for schools.
13 BEST Global Google Doodles - 0 views
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This article provides 13 Google Doodles that have been widely seen as "the best". It also gives a brief history of Google Doodles, talks about Doodle4Google, and briefly describes the events each of the 13 Doodles represents.
How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees - 0 views
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Turns out yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the worm that Robert Tappan Morris released, so here's another Washington Post article on him. Again, great timing, Britney! Be sure to consult this for your final project.
Here's how The Post covered the 'grand social experiment' of the Internet in 1988 - 0 views
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Oddly enough, today the Washington Post has chosen to reprint a 1988 article about the Internet; that article mentions Robert Tappan Morris, the first person prosecuted under the Computer Fraud Act, whom Brittney Douress told us about today. Nice timing, Brittney! :)
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Note too that this article came out well before the World Wide Web was invented circa 1992 / 1993. There weren't any GUI web browsers yet; people just used text-only terminals (no pictures, no video) to access stuff. Mostly news groups -- I'll post a picture of what that looked like if I can find one.
File:PineScreenShot.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views
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Here's the CLI program I used to read email at the University of Virginia in 1992, when I first started using the Internet. Again, not the web. It didn't exist yet.
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