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January 31, 2005

Lecture: How does the Internet work?

Assignment: Post a test posting to your blog

By today, you should have figured out how to login to your blog and post to your blog. This assignment is not graded (but if you don't do it, you won't be able to do the next assignments.) For help, see the Illustrated Guide to Blogging on the help/handouts page.

Assignment: BLOG POST: Is it useful to think of the Internet as a place?

About ten years ago in the Stanford Law Review, David Post and David Johnson advanced the unusual argument that it is useful to think of the Internet as if it were a place -- cyberspace. For the purposes of controlling the Internet and making laws about it, is it useful today to think of the Internet as if it were a place? Explain why/why not. (The readings so far should help you answer.) Post an answer in your blog that is at least 200 words. DEADLINE: 1 p.m. -- one hour before class begins.

Web Reading: How Internet Infrastructure Works

Tyson, J. (n.d.). How Internet Infrastructure Works. How Stuff Works. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ internet-infrastructure.htm/printable

Web Reading: Internet Access

read the section Internet Access (very short) from: "Internet" in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Internet_access