Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of the creation of World Wide Web. The organization responsible for building the Internet, CERN, also created the Large Hadron Collider, which may or may not have broken the speed of light in 2011. British scientist Tim Berners-Lee drafted a series of proposals in 1989 that eventually led to the [...]
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USC Wireless’ December issues resolved
Students faced challenges accessing the internet during finals week of fall semester.
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I got the title for my Internet-themed column from ex-Senator Ted Stevens’ comments on net neutrality. In 2006, Stevens mixed up the words “Internet” and “e-mail,” and then gave an incorrect account of how e-mail traffic works, saying that “[the Internet is] not a big truck — it’s a series of tubes.” It seemed at [...]
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Recent trend of celebrity death hoaxes reveals the downside of the instantaneous nature of the internet and reckless potential of social media.
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