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- Domain Name Service (DNS)
- In the early days of the ARPANET, the forerunner to today's Internet, there were only a small number of computers attached to the network. As the ARPANET continued to grow, it became clear that ARPANET needed a better solution. Several proposals were generated based on the concept of a distributed...
- Tags: ARPAnet, DNS, Domain Name, Domain Names, Internet
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- Geek Trivia: Where the action is @
- Who was the first software developer to use the @ symbol as an operator for routing e-mail, a fateful combination that has made both the symbol and the technology famous? by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Geek Trivia, Symbol, E-mail, Development Tools, Online Communications, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jay Garmon, ARPAnet, ASCII, Tomlinson, Mainframes, Servers, Hardware
- Blog posts 2008-10-21
- Geek Trivia: Name, Net, and match
- What was the original name proposed for the decentralized computing network we now call the Internet -- a sci-fi inspired title first coined by computing pioneer J.C.R. Licklider more than 40 years ago? by Jay Garmon
- Tags: Geek Trivia, Internet, Jay Garmon, ARPAnet, Network, Computer, Productivity
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
Additional Resources
- NMap: A security scanner
- Back in the old days of nobody much cared(or often even knew!) what services were running on machines on the Internet.In fact, supporting a lot of services was almost required given that mainframesand large minicomputers were expensive and needed to pay for themselves everysecond they were running, so runing lots...
- Tags: David H.M. Spector, Internet, Nmap, scanner, security
- Technical articles 2006-10-05
- Many members stumped by computer history pop quiz
- From the origins of the Internet to the birth of RAM, our computer history pop quiz tested members on key events in computer evolution. Find out what they did and didn't know.Historians trace the evolution of the computer as far back as the abacus, which was known in Egypt by...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Internet, Bill Detwiler, computer, ALTAIR
- Technical articles 2002-09-06
- Internet origins
- I just downloaded Dr D C Misra's 20 questions about the internet and was surprised at his view that it all started at CERN in 1989. A better view was offered by john@genart.se that it started from ARPANET in the 60's when dial-up hackers began to use the military net...
- Tags: Dialog, Internet, Proctor, programming, sgkester@...
- Discussion threads 2004-12-14
- Philadelphia reveals Wi-Fi plan
- Philadelphia reveals Wi-Fi planarticle rootWhat a crockGovts are supposed to protect us against force and fraud, not go into the telcom biz. std LP lineWhenever govt's do anything it usually costs more due to inefficiency, corruption, theft. (and No, I'm sure Philly is NOT known for years and...
- Tags: corruption, Dr Dij, government, network, networking, Philly, Wi-Fi
- Discussion threads 2005-04-08
- Gore to get lifetime award for Internet
- http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050505/ap_on_hi_te/gore_award/nc:1212;_ylt=Al8jxkpgEB_SAc3qegfdl4z6VbIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUlI saw this on yahoo and couldn't help but laugh.If its good enough for Vincent CerfThen its good enough for me. JamesOnion HeadlineThat looks like a headline out of "The Onion"Too funny!And to think no body believed he created the Internet! :pI still don't believe it...No one person created anythingEspecially...
- Tags: ITgirli
- Discussion threads 2005-05-05
- Optical networking: The next generation
- Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Network technology, NLR, network, National LambdaRail, Abilene, optical networking
- Technical articles 2004-10-11
- Understanding how DNS works, part 1
- If you want to use TCP/IP on your network, you'll probably need to set up a DNS server. What is DNS and how does it work? Jim Boyce examines DNS and shows you some of its ins and outs.DNS Domain Name Service is one of the most basic services on...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Network technology, Jim Boyce, DNS, IP address, IP, computer
- Technical articles 2000-07-20
- Old Timers Unite!!!
- at 6:00 am PDT Monday October 15 2007 we should all be here to see what trouble we can get going in the discussions ]:)[ gg, that is 1 in the afternoon for you ;) ]Since a lot of us are online at that time anyway, it isn't hard to...
- Tags: Jaqui, old timer, Mae, timer
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- Fighting spam for thirty years
- One of the most common types of questions I get from my users concerns spam e-mail: how can you stop junk e-mail; how can you make sure legitimate e-mails don't mistakenly get trapped in various spam filters; how can one's own e-mail address be used to send that very person...
- Tags: Junk E-mail, Spam E-mail, Cyberthreats, Spam, E-mail, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Joe Rosberg
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
- Geek Trivia: Pros and (emoti)cons
- Theoretically, if you've ever typed a colon or semicolon in sequence with a parenthesis with the intent of indicating the emotional tone of a written statement, then you just might owe somebody a royalty fee. Contrary to all conventional wisdom, the use of certain emoticons -- which is the term...
- Tags: Geek Trivia, Emoticon, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Microsoft investigates another IE flaw report
- Microsoft investigates another IE flaw reportarticle rootMicrosoft investigates another IE flaw reportYou're not going to believe it, but a new flaw was discovered in Internet Explorer 6--on computers running Windows XP with SP2 and all security patches installed. According to independent security researcher Tom Ferris, this security hole allows for...
- Tags: DOS 4.0, flaw, ie, internet explorer, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, security, Sonja Thompson, sp2, xp
- Discussion threads 2005-08-30
- Technology and the new class divide
- Be careful how you define the "classes."The most important nutritional problem among the poorest Americans today is obesity! You have to delve down into the absolute lowest income percentiles of the population to find people who don't have telephones, TVs, microwave ovens, and automobiles.America's "working poor" and even its welfare...
- Tags: DC Guy, security, internet, marketing, reliability, quality, computer literacy, it management, computer
- Discussion threads 2005-11-01
- Growing Older (For the 30+ crowd)
- Growing Older (For the 30+ crowd)IF you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school...
- Tags: game, Growing Older, just_chilin, off-topic, pre email, pre web
- Discussion threads 2005-11-09
- It's time to toss out your antivirus software
- It's time to toss out your antivirus softwarearticle rootWe're not running vista yetThe picture you paint is an attractive one but I have to ask - where's the catch?In a perfect worldYou would be right, However Life is not perfect and what may work for a home set up doesn't...
- Tags: virus, george ou, RobRoyNJ, off-topic, antivirus software, e-mail, laptop computer, PC, software
- Discussion threads 2006-05-26
- It's time to rethink the HOSTS file
- In the early days of the ARPAnet, there was asingle downloadable HOSTS file at the Stanford Research Institute, mapping all theIP addresses of all connected machines to user-friendly names. This worked wellwhen 100 hosts were involved; later, it got sticky-- and DNS was created. Theidea of using a local HOSTS...
- Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, Hosts File
- Technical articles 2005-06-21
- I met the 'Father of Spam' at Interop 2007
- Twenty-nine years ago this spring, Gary Thuerk sent a "mass e-mail" to 600 West Coast computer geeks on ARPAnet to let them know that his company, Digital Equipment Corp., was about to unveil its latest computers at a pair of open house events in California.Thuerk, who was the marketing manager...
- Tags: Spam, Interop07, Interop, Email
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Flow technology based routers for uninterrupted voice and video over the Internet
- Anagran, a Redwood City, California-based start up is seeking to solve the fundamental problem in Internet traffic -- differentiating voice and video from other content. The company's product, FR -1000, is a router that uses "Flow-based" technology to transmit voice and video as continuous streams or flows while other data,...
- Tags: Router, Network, Voice, Video, Networking Technology Breakthrough, Internet, Corporate Communications, Routers & Switches, Networking, Network Technology, Marketing, Arun Radhakrishnan
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
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