Internet History
These two letters were all that got through on the first ARPANET message before the system crashed.
What is "Lo"?
Standardized at 3x5 inches, these organized library collections from the late 1700s until computers arrived
What is the card catalogue?
Jones and Hafner define it as something that stands in-between two things or people and facilitates interaction between them
What is a medium?
Data about data. Descriptive, structural and administrative are its three types
What is metadata?
Data split into pieces that travel independently and are reassembled at the destination
What is packet switching?
She developed MARC at the Library of Congress in the late 1960s
Who is Henriette Avram?
Doing, meaning, relating, thinking and being are the five kinds of these
What are affordances and constraints?
Algorithms showing you only what already matches your interests, narrowing what you see
What is a filter bubble?
At CERN in 1989 he proposed a global information system using hypertext.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
In 1971 this Ohio University library became the first in the world to catalogue online
What is Alden Library?
Understanding what a tool is and does is literacy. Pointing that understanding at a tool nobody prepared you for is this
What is fluency?
A system of categories that makes relationships between data clearer. Dewey Decimal is one
What is an ontology?
Built at McGill in 1990 to search FTP archives, it is considered the first internet search engine
What is Archie?
Introduced in the late 80s, this protocol let libraries search and retrieve catalogue records across each other's systems
What is Z39.50?
Grouping things by shared properties while hiding the specific details.
What is abstraction?
Adding these symbols to a cell reference stops it moving when you fill a formula down a column
What are $ symbols? (an absolute reference)