Lecture 2:Summary

Hey there!

So, lecture 2 was very information filled, leaving lots of time for sleeping! Just Joking! It was a really good lecture, about the history or computers! Stephen told us how the very first computers were used for maths and science, and I believe they were also used to keep cards or prisoners? Maybe I misheard, but I believe that was the case.

He also talked about how 'Apple' started at "Home Brew" meetings of IT 'nerds'.... Well, now those nerds are rich, so, I will never make fun of a World of Warcraft fan ever again. Well....maybe. No Promises.

I simply loved this quote from the lecture:


' (Cyberspace is) a common mental geography, built, in turn, by consensus and revolution, canon and experiment; a territory swarming with data and lies, with mind stuff and memories of nature, with a million voices and two million eyes in a silent, invisible concert of inquiry deal-making, dream sharing, and simple beholding '

Benedikt

It very much so captured the essence of the Internet, such a wonderful invention, that is so amazing, yet full of 'lies' and 'deal-making' - It captured the essence of the "two sided" Internet really well. That's what I feel Internet is, very two sided. The invention itself is wonderful, but the content that goes on within the Internet is anything but wonderful. It a very interesting point that Benedikt had made.

I also never realised that there was a difference between the "Internet" and "World Wide Web"

Overall the history of the Internet is amazing!! I can't wait to see what the Internet holds in the future!

Until the next chapter...
~Bre~