CMN 288 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Computer Network, Ted Nelson, Hypertext
23 Jan 2021
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History the foundation of social media technology and use. Tim berners-lee: the inventor of the internet (world wide web) Interested in linking together researchers and computers: build a hypertext system that linked together computers unlike. Xanadu, it was a proprietary model/no one can come in and edit your document (password protected) Introduced the importance of security, ownership of web pages and websites, logging in, rules/processes/expectations in relation to network computing. 9/16/2020: solution (the technology) in search of a problem (looking for its killer application, ex. Killer app of phones is person to person communication, but it took many years for that to be the main use (for over a decade, telephones were used as broadcast systems for news, weather, stocks, etc. : ex. Wireless communication was invented with no idea what the application would be originally sold to military for ship to ship communication (now it is used for broadcasting/radio) (marconi: ex.
