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!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gee, I wish this MIT stuff had been available over the net in 1980's/1990's. Oh well, better late than never.

By 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

Anonymous said...

By the way, your "Kansas" tagline is cool.

I think it's the best period. Oz rocks and so does EOLAKE! ;)

Anonymous said...

the net in 1980's. ????

the net wasn't even available to people until the mid to late 90's.
unless you were somekind of government worker lol.

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

The *web* became big in the mid-nineties, but geeks had been using the Internet by Usenet and so on well before that.

Anonymous said...

Friend or foe said: the net wasn't even available to people until the mid to late 90's.

You 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".

Anonymous said...

You are confusing Internet with World Wide Web, the currently most popular Internet application.

My apology. I did confuse them. Sorry I goofed. Thank you :)

Anonymous said...

eolake said...
The *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.