[Air-L] [REQUEST] What are internet research's iconic diagrams?

Lovaas,Steven Steven.Lovaas at ColoState.EDU
Sun Aug 28 07:52:23 PDT 2016


I haven't seen them mentioned yet, but the bar napkin sketches where Ethernet and BGP got their start ought to be included.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2220218/ethernet-switch/napkins--where-ethernet--compaq-and-facebook-s-cool-data-center-got-their-starts.html

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-two-napkin-protocol/

Steve Lovaas
Colorado State University



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> On Aug 28, 2016, at 8:33 AM, Christopher J. Richter <crichter at hollins.edu> wrote:
> 
> At the level of influence, Jacob Moreno's 1934 Sociograms in Who Shall Survive
> https://archive.org/details/whoshallsurviven00jlmo 
> 
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>> On Aug 27, 2016, at 4:25 PM, Alex Leavitt <alexleavitt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> If you were to pick a handful of the most iconic diagrams across internet
>> research, theory, and history, what would they be?
>> 
>> I'm trying to compile as many diagrams as possible. They could also be
>> graphs, charts, photographs, drawings, etc. They could come from sociology,
>> anthropology, computer science, physics, etc. They could also relate to
>> social theories that are particularly prescient for internet studies.
>> 
>> For example, I think the diagram of distributed networks in Paul Baran's
>> 1964 "On Distributed Communications" (
>> http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2006/RM3420.pdf,
>> diagram on p. 16 of the PDF) is a great example of what I'm looking for.
>> 
>> For another example in the theoretical realm, perhaps the "two-step flow"
>> model from Katz & Lazarfeld's 1955 Personal Influence (
>> https://www.utwente.nl/cw/theorieenoverzicht/Theory%20Clusters/Mass%20Media/Two_Step_Flow_Theory-1/,
>> scroll down for the diagram).
>> 
>> Does anyone else have pointers to any other iconic diagrams?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>> 
>> ---
>> 
>> Alexander Leavitt, Ph.D.
>> USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
>> http://alexleavitt.com
>> Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>
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