md`# Abbate Response`
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## Thoughts
Abbate provided a succinct overview of the history of the Internet. From my time in OS and Networks at Swat, I had a decent understanding of bits and pieces of the development of the Internet. However, having the entire narrative laid out in front of my helped unify a lot of disparate subjects.
Knowing the history of infastructures allows us to better grapple with understanding how to make sense of the infastructure as it is today. The Internet is the net result (no pun intended) of a series of small decisions - one can conceptualize the Internet having a very different structure had it not grown out of a nonprofit/research sector. The changes that continue to take place across systems such as the Internet can only be assessed with the basis of understanding the changes that have taken place in the past.
## notes:
- ARPANET: created as research effort to share computing resources in a nonhierarchical way
- Thoughts of profits: tried to privatize, companies didn't want it. gradual change from sharing computational power to communication purposes
- rival networks different than ARPANET: ARPANET allowed diverse types of computers
- TCP/IP: complexity is at the computers at endpoints rather than within the network
- dial up access to online services
- World Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee
- Commercialization: transfer TCP/IP tech to private sector, IBM had to adapt
- nonprofit NSFNET and commercial internet, eventually taken over
### References
- Abbate, Janet. “Government, Business, and the Making of the Internet.” The Business History Review (Spring 2001).
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<p>Here is a breif summary of what HTML is, off the top of my head:</p>
<p> Each website is hosted at a server (which is just another computer connected to the Internet). Internet browser sends a GET request, server responds with data typically encoded in HTTP. Internet browser interprets and displays that information. That information is typically plaintext stored in HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language. HTML is simply text surrounded by a series of tags that inform web browsers how they should render text. </p>
<img src='${dog.message}' />
<p>Here, in order to retrieve this image, a separate GET request is being called by the internet browser to retrieve the image stored at the url specified by dog.message.</p>
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dog = (await fetch(`https://dog.ceo/api/breeds/image/random`)).json()
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