About raptnrent: I got the name from my keys - R Apt and R Ent for the back door to my apartment and the back door to the house. I liked that they were also words: Rapt, meaning enthralled, riveted, captivated, and Rent, meaning torn asunder, violently wrenched. I thought it made for an interesting juxtaposition, open to all kinds of interpretations.
Tag Archives: History
A timeline from Twitter
The ever-observant Mariana Funes brought something to my attention: .@phb256 of any use for #tic? They welcome suggestions http://t.co/TR00NDx1RG — Mariana Funes (@mdvfunes) April 12, 2014 The link goes to A timeline of the history of the World Wide Web, and … Continue reading
Raw history
Jim’s been digging in to the history of the internet during the Internet Course, and one of the groups is looking specifically at ARPANET for their project. I thought it might be interesting to see what kind of official documents … Continue reading
Down a gopher hole
I was curious about this Gopher thing. I had heard of it before, but I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone actually using it, even back in the day. Here’s an image I used to use with classes when talking … Continue reading
The future of communication
Future, past and present are all zones on the continuum of history. There is a trend we can see throughout human history that more people sharing more information more widely, more rapidly, leads to more and more advances in the … Continue reading
History
One of the things about history is that it is ongoing. That is not only because of new events, but also because of the reinterpretation of old events. Many of the Internet History articles we found were a little old, late … Continue reading