Week Two Lecture Review

The class blog called this a short history of computing and the internet, but the length of the post is comparable to the Great Wall of China. A lot of it I'd heard before in various classes but there were still a few things that I learned and promptly forgot because as a user of the internet, I don't care where it came from or how it got the way it is, I only care about avoiding boredom for another couple of hours or getting in touch with my friends to arrange an outing. Still, it's nice to know that so much work went into letting furries and emo kids plaster their interests across the global web...