Arts
The Ovinet
Since the World Wide Web has become a conduit for the streaming of the received ‘wisdom’ of so many sheep, there’s a case for renaming it the Ovinet. The appropriateness (good LibFascist word that) of [more…]
The Internet
Engineering
A new Internet
The roots of the Internet are military, as everyone knows. One of the earliest projects of the military computer age, alongside automated discrimination of ICBM radar trajectories to separate them from harmless civilian traffic, tactical [more…]
Arts
The Internet
So there I was, at 16, with my Commodore 64, a Programmers Reference Guide and no assembler, translating assembly instructions into hexadecimal opcodes, by hand, then typing them in as DATA statements in decimals. A [more…]
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The Internet is Simple, Part Four
The UK, of course, ever keen to gild the lily and gold plate the restrictions that everyone else was putting on the internet, began blocking the torrent sites like The Pirate Bay, through the Cleanfeedsystem. It [more…]
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The Internet is Simple, Part Three
We’ve talked about asymmetric and symmetric encryption keys here but without really going into them. Encryption is a way of scrambling data so that it is unreadable, unless you have the key to turn it [more…]
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The Internet is Simple, Part Two
Routers keep this mapping in a list for future lookup. The chain keeps on going, with each step out to the wider network adding enough information so the network knows how to handle your packet [more…]
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The Internet is Simple, Part One
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, Then the [more…]
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The Democratisation of Information
In the first week of December 2016, 28 year old Edgar Maddison Welch walked into the Washington based Comet Ping Pong pizza restaurant armed with an AR-15 assault rifle and let off a shot. He [more…]