Interwebbings
Created in 1989, this client-server protocol serves as the basis for the data communication on the World Wide Web.
What is HTTP?
This law refers to the perception that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years, though the cost of computers is halved.
What is Moore’s Law?
As a baseball batter, you have hit one of these to make it to second base.
What is a double?
This is the acronym MTC2 spelled out.
What is Maritime Tactical Command and Control?
This HTTP method is similar to another one in that it will create a resource, but differs in that it will update it if it already exists.
What is PUT?
It’s the law of parsimony, the problem-solving principle that "entities should not be multiplied without necessity", or more simply, the simplest explanation is usually the right one.
What is Occam's razor?
It's a cheese. It's a theory. It's a bean.
What is a String?
Acting as a map between domain names and IP addresses, this naming system helps bridge the gap between human and machine-readable language.
What is DNS?
"Anything that can go wrong will go wrong"
What is Murphy's Law?
Any kind of logic, function, expression, or theory based on the work of George Boole is considered to be this.
What is Boolean?
This alternative web protocol allows for more immediate communication and messaging between nodes. It is essential to the UI's swift updates.
What are WebSockets?
Sharing a name with a telescope that loves to send us fascinating pictures of space, this law provides a concise method for measuring a galaxy's velocity in relation to our own.
What is Hubble’s Law?
This type of system is based on both social factors and individual achievement. The system consists of sets of people who share similar status with regard to factors like wealth, income, education, and occupation.
What is a class?
The first widely adopted web browser, eventually superseded by Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
What is Netscape?
The temporary imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions or suspension of civil law by a government, especially in response to a temporary emergency where civil forces are overwhelmed, or in an occupied territory.
What is Martial Law?
A centimeter-wavelength radio astronomy observatory located in central New Mexico on the Plains of San Agustin is a “Very Large” Y-shaped one of these consisting of twenty-eight 25-meter radio telescopes.
What is an array?