itp-blog

Week 3

Droplet

My second Digital Ocean droplet, whose firewall I configured using the Digital Ocean GUI, is down.

Readings

The Bodies of Internet Governance

The Internet grew out of ARPAnet. Stanford, UCLA, UCSB, and the University of Utah were founding members of ARPAnet.

Most (or all?) of these organizations are based in the United States.

Domain Name System

DNS connects IP addresses with human readable addresses.

What We Should Know About DNS

All devices connected to the Internet have IP addresses.

The http://symbolics.com/ website is designed in a way that is amusing.

The Internet as a Public Utility

This article has a strong point of view. I wonder why the author’s name is not shared or visible.

Tim Wu is a great author (my point of view - author, Ender).