Skills that have been lost because of the Internet
The Internet has done wonders for modern civilization. We can connect with people all over the globe and read about world events as they happen. New skillsets have emerged as well as new jobs (Emoji Expert anyone?) that were relatively unthinkable only a generation ago. Yet this technology has sapped many of critical skills that […]
Can defragging speed your Internet connection up?
Your Internet is moving slowly. It happens. Chances are if you’ve called your ISP you’ve sat on hold for a long time listening to bad music. You don’t want to do that, believe me I did over the phone tech support for over 5 years. So you reach into your bag of tricks and you […]
What if the Internet stopped working for a day?
There are all kinds of doomsday scenarios that can play out or have at one point played out in a movie or TV show from a nuclear war to an alien invasion. One of the first things that would be eliminated is the Internet. How would the world react? How would we all react? It […]
HTTPS
The Internet would not exist as we know it if the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) did not exist. It is in many ways the very beginnings of the net. It was designed by Tim Berners-Lee and his team at CERN in 1989 and it is the protocol that the internet runs on. One thing that […]