![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Solving sleep debt
Aug. 13th, 2006 08:43 amHow To Get A Good Night's Sleep Suggestions for how to get the proper amount of rest.
Aug. 13th, 2006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5233016.stm - Some patients may be so emotional when receiving a doctor's advice that they forget what the doctor has told them, resulting in their returning for a diagnosis of the same condition repeatedly.
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/dict/ - Dictionary of theiving slang from 1736
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/06/1436216&from=rss - Radar stratigraphy has revealed the possible existence of a previously-unknown toomb in the Valley of the Kings
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/07/28/diviner-sage.html?ref=rss - Salvia divinorum, or diviner's sage, is a member of the sage family that was traditionally used by shamans in Mexico to induce visions. It is currentlly legal in Canada (but illegal in the US and Australia), even though it is a known hallucinogen. There are no plans to change the plant's status in Canada.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2301968&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 - A professor in New York beleives that raising fish in urban basements could solve problems of overfishing and provide a healthy source of food and alternative income. He sees tanks tucked into warehouses and skyscrapers, and is currently raising a tank of talapia.
http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/dict/ - Dictionary of theiving slang from 1736
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/06/1436216&from=rss - Radar stratigraphy has revealed the possible existence of a previously-unknown toomb in the Valley of the Kings
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/07/28/diviner-sage.html?ref=rss - Salvia divinorum, or diviner's sage, is a member of the sage family that was traditionally used by shamans in Mexico to induce visions. It is currentlly legal in Canada (but illegal in the US and Australia), even though it is a known hallucinogen. There are no plans to change the plant's status in Canada.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2301968&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 - A professor in New York beleives that raising fish in urban basements could solve problems of overfishing and provide a healthy source of food and alternative income. He sees tanks tucked into warehouses and skyscrapers, and is currently raising a tank of talapia.
August 13th marked the 25th anniversary of the first PC to go on sale. Do the math, that's 1981, folks. What were you doing then?
http://www.gizmag.com/go/5991/
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/08/13/1725252.shtml - the 25 "greatest" PCs of all time (according to PCWorld.)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126692-page,14-c,systems/article.html# - The list in order of "greatest" to "least"
http://r-101.blogspot.com/ - The evolution of the computer interface (progressing through Mac, Windows and Linux graphical interfaces)
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Technology/story?id=2306109&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 - According to ABC, the first PC (ignoring the Commadore and the Apple) was the IBM 5150, clocking in at a blindingly fast 4.77-MHz and had 15-Kb of RAM. No harddrive though, but a floppy drive was included.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/biztech/08/11/ibmpcanniversary/ - More about the first PCs from CNN
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2309109,00.html - New York Times article which notes that the Apple II came out in 1977.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC - wikipedia has a timeline for the history of the IBM PC
Meanwhile, the Internet turned 15 on August 6 (http://slashdot.org/articles/06/08/07/1218223.shtml). That's 1991, the year after I graduated from university.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5242252.stm - The "birth" of the Internet was measured from the date on which the code for hypertext was published in a Usenet discussion list called alt.hypertext (for those of us who remember Usenet lists).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5243862.stm - A slider that lets you review the historical highlights of the Internet
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=10300 - History starting from the idea of the WWW back in 1989.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051104-5528.html - November 1990 was the invention of the first web server
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/firstpages.shtml - Examples of early web pages
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/News/9201.html - Copy of the first "web page" from 1992
http://www.gizmag.com/go/5777/ - While on a historical note, in the past decade the number of people (in the US) considered "online" has risen from 7% in 1995 to more than 77% today. (related: http://www.gizmag.com/go/2732/ - US population raidly approaching ubiquitous internet connectivity)
http://www.gizmag.com/go/2426/ - More amusing factoids: in 2003, more than 50% of email received by the average user would be classified as spam.
http://www.gizmag.com/go/5991/
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/08/13/1725252.shtml - the 25 "greatest" PCs of all time (according to PCWorld.)
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126692-page,14-c,systems/article.html# - The list in order of "greatest" to "least"
http://r-101.blogspot.com/ - The evolution of the computer interface (progressing through Mac, Windows and Linux graphical interfaces)
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Technology/story?id=2306109&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 - According to ABC, the first PC (ignoring the Commadore and the Apple) was the IBM 5150, clocking in at a blindingly fast 4.77-MHz and had 15-Kb of RAM. No harddrive though, but a floppy drive was included.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/biztech/08/11/ibmpcanniversary/ - More about the first PCs from CNN
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2309109,00.html - New York Times article which notes that the Apple II came out in 1977.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC - wikipedia has a timeline for the history of the IBM PC
Meanwhile, the Internet turned 15 on August 6 (http://slashdot.org/articles/06/08/07/1218223.shtml). That's 1991, the year after I graduated from university.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5242252.stm - The "birth" of the Internet was measured from the date on which the code for hypertext was published in a Usenet discussion list called alt.hypertext (for those of us who remember Usenet lists).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5243862.stm - A slider that lets you review the historical highlights of the Internet
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=10300 - History starting from the idea of the WWW back in 1989.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051104-5528.html - November 1990 was the invention of the first web server
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/firstpages.shtml - Examples of early web pages
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/News/9201.html - Copy of the first "web page" from 1992
http://www.gizmag.com/go/5777/ - While on a historical note, in the past decade the number of people (in the US) considered "online" has risen from 7% in 1995 to more than 77% today. (related: http://www.gizmag.com/go/2732/ - US population raidly approaching ubiquitous internet connectivity)
http://www.gizmag.com/go/2426/ - More amusing factoids: in 2003, more than 50% of email received by the average user would be classified as spam.
Digging through the history
Aug. 13th, 2006 10:23 pmArpanet - Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
It was formed back on 1968 (when I was born), although it had been proposed as early as 1962.
http://www2.dei.isep.ipp.pt/docs/arpa-Introduc.html - History of ARPNet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET - wikipedia entry about Arpanet. (Historical note: Queen Elizabeth sent her first email in 1976)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet - wiki's Internet history
http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/internet/en/arpanet.html - IP was first adopted in 1983
http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/internet_history/
Arpanet was shut down in 1990.
Email
By 1971 the standard form of the email address was defined, although "email" existed as far back as 1965.
BITNet - Because It's Time Net
Formed in 1981, it originally consisted of only two universities, Yale and CUNY. It peaked in 1991, but it faded with the growing popularity of the Internet in the early 1990s.
http://kb.iu.edu/data/aaso.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitnet
http://www.livinginternet.com/u/ui_bitnet.htm
NetNorth and CA*Net
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/cn/netnorth.html - Canada's equivalent of NSFNet was NetNorth, formed in 1983 and consisted of two universities, Guelph and Waterloo, connected at 2400-baud. In 1984 they joined the US university BITNet (Because Its Time Network), then adopted the IP standard in 1989. By 1991, the CA*Net backbone was formed. NetNorth ended after 1992.
NSFNet - National Science Foundation Network
The first wide area network was formed in 1984 with the the first Internet backbone established in 1986. This was the year I graduated from high school and started university. About this time the term "Internet" was coined.
Search Engines
By 1990, the Internet was complex enough to require search engines. Canada' Archie search engine was developed in 1990 as was Webcrawler. This was followed by WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) and Gopher in 1991, the latter which served as a hypertext interface.
World Wide Web
Hypertext was developed in 1991, hence our "birthdate" for the Internet. The date refers not to the coining of the phrase or the development of the system, but the public availability of an easy way to present and transfer information. In other words, the "birthdate" of the Internet is really the birthdate of HTML. Mosaic was the first true web browser and came out of a funding initiative pushed into existence by Al Gore.
It was formed back on 1968 (when I was born), although it had been proposed as early as 1962.
http://www2.dei.isep.ipp.pt/docs/arpa-Introduc.html - History of ARPNet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET - wikipedia entry about Arpanet. (Historical note: Queen Elizabeth sent her first email in 1976)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet - wiki's Internet history
http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/internet/en/arpanet.html - IP was first adopted in 1983
http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/internet_history/
Arpanet was shut down in 1990.
By 1971 the standard form of the email address was defined, although "email" existed as far back as 1965.
BITNet - Because It's Time Net
Formed in 1981, it originally consisted of only two universities, Yale and CUNY. It peaked in 1991, but it faded with the growing popularity of the Internet in the early 1990s.
http://kb.iu.edu/data/aaso.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitnet
http://www.livinginternet.com/u/ui_bitnet.htm
NetNorth and CA*Net
http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/cn/netnorth.html - Canada's equivalent of NSFNet was NetNorth, formed in 1983 and consisted of two universities, Guelph and Waterloo, connected at 2400-baud. In 1984 they joined the US university BITNet (Because Its Time Network), then adopted the IP standard in 1989. By 1991, the CA*Net backbone was formed. NetNorth ended after 1992.
NSFNet - National Science Foundation Network
The first wide area network was formed in 1984 with the the first Internet backbone established in 1986. This was the year I graduated from high school and started university. About this time the term "Internet" was coined.
Search Engines
By 1990, the Internet was complex enough to require search engines. Canada' Archie search engine was developed in 1990 as was Webcrawler. This was followed by WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) and Gopher in 1991, the latter which served as a hypertext interface.
World Wide Web
Hypertext was developed in 1991, hence our "birthdate" for the Internet. The date refers not to the coining of the phrase or the development of the system, but the public availability of an easy way to present and transfer information. In other words, the "birthdate" of the Internet is really the birthdate of HTML. Mosaic was the first true web browser and came out of a funding initiative pushed into existence by Al Gore.