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Why is hypertext blue?
A student asked the design question, “Why is hypertext blue?” I was able to speculate why as a designer I might have chosen the color blue over another; like red. Red indicates alarm where blue is less intimidating yet still provides a strong contrast with surrounding black text and a white background. However, I could…
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The history of the internet
The following video, The History of the Internet, an animated documentary by Melih Bilgil, was featured by Youtube.com on 1/27/2009. It is a great illustration of the beginnings of the TCP/IP protocol which is the underlying communications protocol that connects computers to the internet. The HTTP protocol, a communications protocol, runs on top of the…
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About WordPad vs NotePad
A student writes the following question… “When I write my code in Wordpad and save as an htm text document, it looks like one. But after I open it in the browser to see how it looks, the icon in the folder no longer says .htm and it appears to be a Firefox document. Is…
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