MM1A03
Section Two
Instructor: Francois Lachance


This text file should help you 
practice your cut & paste techniques

REVIEW

Paths to the following 
HTML files can be traced 
from links from outline to course
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/lachanc/mcmaster/outline.htm

Open the page and try to trace a path from the course outline:


The Microcomputer: Communication
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hccrs/COMM.HTM
Provides an excellent explanation of the hardware
necessary for network connections.


A Brief History of Networking
http://www.silkroad.com/net-history.html
Details as on the evolution of ARPANET into NSFNET.


Portable computing between 1975 and 1985 
http://granite.sentex.net:80/~ccmuseum/portable.html
A history project originating from Waterloo, Ontario


Check out this chronology & assess it on its coverage of the Intenet
http://www.cyberstreet.com/hcs/museum/chron.htm
Display source and indicate how to find a background image
Ethics of linking to image or copying image without permission


Humanities Computing Timeline
http://cheiron.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~history/
Do a keyword search with "networking"
Also play with the  "random" button

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The first email message
http://www.pretext.com/mar98/features/story2.htm
Sometime in late 1971, a computer engineer
named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail
message. "I sent a number of test messages to
myself from one machine to the other," he recalls
now. "The test messages were entirely
forgettable. . . . Most likely the first message was
QWERTYIOP or something similar."
qwertyiop == what's missing?


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GOPHER

Locate this statement by Willard McCarty

"As a publication mechanism, gopher allows a wide variety and large
amount of scholarly information to be both accessible and distributed
throughout the world. Such distribution reduces institutional cost,
encourages variety, and tends to ensure that individual copies,
potentially in a variety of states, do not proliferate.  Its cost,
however, is the potential instability of all Internet resources.
A well-designed gopher strikes a balance between the security and
stability of locally controlled information, and the low cost and
currency of distributed data."


through 

gopher://gopher.epas.utoronto.ca:70/11/cch



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