In the symposium and workshop today, we touched on DNS and IP servers briefly. The Galloway reading discussed this, but it was a subject too complicated and dry for someone as disengaged with computers as I am. If you have similar sentiments (hi-5!), you’d be happy to know that Tim, Dana and Mardy did a wonderful, un-boring Niki on this.
If you’re too lazy to read the Niki chunk, check out this fun, animated video on DNS instead:
DNS stands for Domain Name System. DNS turns user-friendly domain names like facebook.com into an Internet Protocol (IP) address like 69.63.176.13 that computers use to identify each other on the network. In other words, we would have to memorize strings of numbers if not for DNS. I did a Google search on DNS and someone actually described DNS as the system that keeps Internet users sane. Right on.
In other news, I just discovered Pinterest. I know, I know, I’m slow to catch on. But I have! And it’s so addictive; I’ve spent three hours this morning “pinning” images. If you don’t know what it is, check out Esther’s post on Pinterest.