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By Sorin Adam MateiPublished September 27, 2017Updated February 26, 2018

The generative dilemma of the Internet

This is an introduction to a set of core concepts related to Internet communication for the Course COM 251 Information, Technology, Society which I teach at Purdue University. One of Aesop’s fables gives a clever answer to the question: “what is the…

By Sorin Adam MateiPublished September 25, 2017Updated October 13, 2025

What is the Internet edge-to-edge (end-to-end or e2e) design principle? What is it good for and what are its main trade-offs?

This is a tutorial on a set of core concepts related to Internet communication for the courses I teach at Purdue University. In a previous post about the basic architecture of the Internet, I discussed the Internet’s intrinsic decentralization and its layered…

By Scott SandersPublished March 29, 2006Updated June 3, 2011

Songs of the Mock Turtle: Ways of knowing in an online world

For many, the democratic and liberatory promise of the internet lies in the potential to allow collaboration, interaction, and exchange of information, ideas, and resources at a scale not otherwise possible (or at least, not highly probable) in a simple offline world.…