Notes on life, art, photography and technology, by a Danish dropout bohemian.
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Saturday, February 03, 2007
M.I.T. for free
Yet another indication that we are "not in Kansas anymore": The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is putting their course materials on the web for free!
Gee, I wish this MIT stuff had been available over the net in 1980's/1990's. Oh well, better late than never.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, your "Kansas" tagline is cool, but there's no denying that the tagline of Peter Bollig's blog is somewhat fascinating as well:
Back in Kansas after a semester in Hong Kong & China
By the way, your "Kansas" tagline is cool.
ReplyDeleteI think it's the best period. Oz rocks and so does EOLAKE! ;)
the net in 1980's. ????
ReplyDeletethe net wasn't even available to people until the mid to late 90's.
unless you were somekind of government worker lol.
The *web* became big in the mid-nineties, but geeks had been using the Internet by Usenet and so on well before that.
ReplyDeleteFriend or foe said: the net wasn't even available to people until the mid to late 90's.
ReplyDeleteYou are confusing Internet with World Wide Web, the currently most popular Internet application.
I have been using the Internet daily since 1986.
World Wide Web wasn't introduced until around 1993-1994. Before that, the most popular Internet applications were email, FTP, Usenet and Gopher.
Gopher was WWW's predecessor. Similarly, WWW too will eventually give way to the next "killer app".
You are confusing Internet with World Wide Web, the currently most popular Internet application.
ReplyDeleteMy apology. I did confuse them. Sorry I goofed. Thank you :)
eolake said...
ReplyDeleteThe *web* became big in the mid-nineties, but geeks had been using the Internet by Usenet and so on well before that.
Thank you eolake, I honestly didn't know that. Appreciate your information. Thank you sir.