Open Architecture - After having a cheeky look through Lister's reading and a couple of people's blogs, I think that the term 'open architecture' can be summarised as what the title suggests. The Internet is an open service of which any fool can log onto and talk whatever.
As a quote stated says 'it's intended to facilitate and exchange flow of data'.
In terms of architecture, it does seem to suggest that the internet is almost a project on which we build on. With Lister refering to facts on the topic, from 1969 the world saw 4 servers (but not surprising as they would consist of the ones at NASA) which grew to 200,000,000 by 2002.
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rincy
ReplyDeleteIf the Inet's 'open' how is architecture 'open'? We can't build "on" architecture can we? You have to get professional qualifications to be an architect don't you? Isn't civil engineering what we call building, wheras architecture is design?
ReplyDeleteWhat's "Open Source" when it comes to the Inet?
I think you make a good point about the internet being something that we are encouraged to build on. The fact that we can take this literally with things like SecondLife (where we can actually build our own buildings in VR and such) is a different point entirely, but particularly in the case of forums, where communities are formed and thrive purely online based upon each user's personal input is a really interesting idea!
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