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In a "spur-of-the-moment" weekend trip to New York City I planned, I made it my destiny to visit many of the major tourist attractions. I hit everything from the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, Ground Zero, and the Brooklyn Bridge to Chinatown, Madison Square Garden, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza, and Times Square. If that wasn't enough, I made my way to a Broadway show and ate some peanuts from a street vendor all while managing to figure out the New York subway system enough to not die.

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So browsing the Internet, I discovered the Wayback Machine. Thanks to Internet Archive, you can see what web sites looked in their early days and see each month of progress. Mainly, let's take a look at Alexa's Top Sites worldwide on the Internet to see how each one has changed over the years. We won't be looking deeply into the purpose, but rather design and usability upgrades.

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When it comes to computer-related media, the biggest confusion I seem to see is between vector and bitmap images (JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF files). Any image can be made into a bitmap, but a bitmap cannot be made into a vector image without redrawing every line to create a new file completely. Bitmap uses tiny squares each with its own color to make up an image, while vector uses mathematical points and lines connected to each other to enclose a shape. Each serve their own purpose in design work.

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After some deliberation as to whether a wireless or wired connection is better I decided to put them to the test.

The Five Factors

• Cost
• Installation
• Security
• Reliability
• Performance

The Aspects

Cost

Usually CAT5 cables required for wired networks run about $0.80 per foot. While hubs and routers required to keep hot spots constant are $100+. Although, there would also be labor costs involved in running cables throughout the building should they not have been.

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In essence, an IP address is a numeric address of a computer network or a single computer. Public IP addresses are assigned by their respective organizations. Most computers, referred to as hosts from now on, have two to three IP addresses. Each of these have a certain meaning to other hosts it might communicate with. If you have a router, all of the information exchanged between local devices and external hosts will go through your router.

Types of IP Addresses

Self IP Address

This IP address is used by your own computer when communicating with itself through transfer protocols.

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