Jon's History 390 Blog

I read the article by Mat Honan a few months ago when the story broke. I think it is a shocking example of what the most valuable commodities in the future will be, privacy and security. With so many aspects of our lives now linked in some way to the internet and available to the […]

The website containing pictures of the historic Highway 49 and the California Gold Rush is the shakiest of the 3 websites that we could review. Many of the pictures contained on the site are pre 1923 and in the public domain so there is no infringement on IP copyright laws. In the ghost stories section […]

The wikipedia article on the history of the internet I found was very thorough on covering the complete timeline of the internets development and lifespan since its inception in the late 1950s. It looks at a lot of the precursors of the internet that were developed in the mid 20th century that I have never […]

“Post the poem on your course website and that attorney can find the violation in two seconds.” I found this quote interesting because I personally feel that it is contradictory to what the reality of the web is or at least to the way that I perceive it. While all the various material on the […]

http://search.proquest.com.mutex.gmu.edu/docview/214814054/fulltextPDF/13937CFE1423FC83447/2?accountid=14541 Study that attempts to survey the internets size and composition in its infancy in 1995. Mainly looks at the number of users in the US who had internet access at that time. A good look at where the internet began and what it looked like almost 20 years ago. http://search.proquest.com.mutex.gmu.edu/docview/194538913/fulltextPDF/13937D4626D26DE8EE9/2?accountid=14541 Forecasts the growth of […]

“…if they are evidence, don’t we have to know that the evidence is reliable, that it can be trusted?”?” I thought this question was interesting because I felt it was something that as a student and a historian I shouldnt be asking. Truthfully I don’t think any intelligent person who reads the news should have to […]

What factors have contributed to the significant rise in data requirements across the web  in the past 10 years?

“Data transfer of 50 GB in a single month is roughly equivalent to a twenty-page site with small images and no multimedia being thoroughly examined by 50,000 visitors.” I found this statistic incredibly insightful into the amount of data that is transmitted across the internet daily. If this is the average for a small site that can […]