Digital Artifact Reflection

Our group’s topic is “History of the Internet – Examining the Web and the Internet, Who Created & Shaped Them & Who brought them to Ireland”. In our first meeting some of us brought a few suggestions. My suggestion was to do something related to the “Internet/ Web” due to its significant importance and also …

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The Open Concept – From Open Source to Open Access

The web, a concrete legacy of the 1960’s counterculture (djs61257, 2010b), comes from a generation carrying the ideal of freedom and was idealized by a person seeking a tool that facilitates collaboration and provides equal and easy access to information to all its users. (djs61257, 2010c) From the beginning, it was already possible to see …

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“Here is where collaboration and critical discourse is essential.”  (Garrison et. al, 2000) Things are changing faster than ever before. The daily advance of technology has continuously made us reinvent ourselves. How we write and read, how we create knowledge, how we entertain and inform ourselves, how we shop, how we communicate, how we engage …

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From the Internet to the WWW

The origins of the Internet In the early sixties, the networking concept was taking its first steps. Later in this decade, ARPANET would provide “the technical foundation for the internet” (“Infographic,” 2018). Initially, the purpose of such development was to facilitate data transfer between universities, and in 1969 the first digital data was sent from …

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