Posted on 03/09/2015 8:36:25 AM PDT by rktman
Let’s go back to the beginning of Google. The word itself is actually an error. The word the infant geeks who founded Google were looking for was “Googol,” the mathematicians’ term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes – a very large number. And have they corrected their mistake? No.
Google execs like to claim the corporation was founded in a garage. No, it wasn’t. The truth is, it was founded in a swank suburban villa on a leafy street. There was a garage attached, and the geeks set up a couple of old computers in there and typically spent one day a month there so that they could later claim Google was just another trad Silicon-valley start-up.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
As a point, the name is based on a play on word of “Googol,” but also of “googly,” which meant to have wide eyes, as one who stares in amazement has.
Why does a self-driving car need rear-view mirrors?
They want me to drive a dorkmobile?
“And I REALLY like your tagline!”
Include me in, Blam.
OpenDNS does not log your DNS lookups long term like your ISP might.”
I went to OpenDNS when our ISP apparently “upgraded” the software on their servers or that's the way it appeared. My wifes'PC could not reach certain sites that I could with my Mac and vice-versa.
Calls to customer support was a joke. “Duane” who sounded like an extra from Slumdog Millionaire insisted I had a virus and needed to reformat my disc!. I found out about OpenDNS and they had a basic level of service that was free. I reset the router with their DNS IP and problem solved. I never looked back.
Hell, why does it even need windows?
Dog killer
Thanks for “Barney”; I hadn’t heard that in maybe forty years, but I was singing from your post!
Most folks don’t understand that the very core of their web browsing experience is DNS. Always make sure your DNS servers are hosted by a trusted entity.
I would like to be able to use Bing, with my previous internet service I was able set it up with no problems and it was my primary search engine, I now have comcast and when I try to use Bing it takes over my toolbar and homepage, I have ASK which is google, I don’t want google or yahoo. I’m not the most competent when it comes to today’s electronics.
They must have run out of money. When I google "monckton video", the first thing that comes up is the 95-minute complete speech. The second thing that comes up is the 4-minute excerpt he refers to in the article.
I remembered it from the Mitch Miller Show!
DNS (Domain Name System) is what converts your named sites to their appropriate IP address. An IP address is like a telephone number. DNS servers are like enormous phone books. In this case, however, wherever you go is cached on those servers and most providers save lists of servers you’ve called from their DNS hosts. If it’s a provider like Google, they’re saving your browsing habits even if you aren’t using Google to search.
All two of them? :-)
Yeah, but...What's a "server?"
No, seriously: I have absolutely no idea how I should go about determining whether or not I even have a DNS server, let alone whether it is hosted by a "trusted entity" - and I know how to send e-mails!
Regards,
Yep, they take turns. =^)
CC
If it does have windows I bet it will keep crashing...
CC
There are hundreds of taxi and bus companies out there. They can all get you to the same destination, but they all might use different highways, byways, streets, avenues, and alleyways to get you there. Remember that everything on the Internet is numbers. Every website you visit has an Internet Protocol (IP) address. This address is like a phone number. It is unique to the provider of that website. For instance, FreeRepublic's IP address is 209.157.64.200.
Every time you type freeRepublic.com into your web browser, your computer initiates a process that reaches out to the Internet several times, to several different places, for different pieces of information. The first stop is DNS. Remember, DNS is like a phone book. FreeRepublic.com has a "phone number" of 209.157.64.200, and the DNS servers (there are an enormous number of them worldwide) have FreeRepublic's "phone number" listed the same all around. Once your computer gets the right number to access, it reaches back out directly to that "phone number" to access the server that's providing the website that you visit every day. To you, all of the communication is done using letters and words, but to the Internet and all interconnected computing devices, everything is done by numbers.
Your DNS servers, like phone books, are generally the same across the board. The difference between DNS servers and phone books, however, is that you don't have people looking over your shoulder at the phone book while you look for a phone number. With DNS, all of the "calls" you make can be stored on that DNS server as a text file that can be used to identify all of the websites you've browsed, among other things. So while many people choose not to search from Google.com, if you are using one of Google's DNS servers, you're still using Google to access the Internet.
A quick way to determine what DNS servers your computer is configured to use is to check your network adapter configuration. If you're on Windows, you can click 'Start' and open a command window ('cmd'). You can then type 'ipconfig /all' and you will see a list of information about your network adapter(s). In that list, you should see a line that says "DNS Servers," and in all likelihood you're using your ISP's DNS servers. For most people, this works just fine. For the nerds among us, we want control down to the last bit we send out from our machines. If any of your DNS servers have an IP address of 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4, however, you're using Google's DNS.
So that's a small primer on your computer's conversations with the Internet. I apologize if this was overly complicated. I've been working in IT for 20 years, and I often forget that people don't recognize the intricacies of the Internet outside of whether or not it's working.
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