Jorge's DESMA9 Blog

The Birthplace of the Internet  For my 3rd and final event, I chose to visit the "Birthplace of the Internet" at UCLA, located in Boelter hall on the 3rd floor. As a millennial that has never lived a life without the internet, I became fascinated by seeing where the internet was first "created", at least the first time it was created by the general public. In 1969 a UCLA graduate student sent out the first message over the internet through the ARPANET system, and the student only managed to say "Lo" before the system crashed while they were attempting to say "login" (Kudler, 2018). I find this extremely fascinating because we went from not being able to send the word "login" over the internet in 1969, to 2019 where information is spreading and traveling so rapidly that it may lead to the end of us all.  The thought of how far we have come as the human race poses a very scary thought experiment about the future of the human rac

Space + Art "Space is the breath of art" - Frank Lloyd Wright  When I think of space, I think of star trek and this fictional world in which we travel across the galaxy and have space wars. However, the reality we live in is not as exciting as that, but when we start to look at the intricacies of space and the universe in which our planet is in we begin to see the beauty behind it and its strong connection to art, much like everything else. Like Carl Sagan said in his "Pale Blue Dot" speech, even though the earth is a tiny planet in a universe filled with planets and stars, this tiny planet still holds all the people we've once known, politicians, conquerors, good people, bad people, and everything in between. Space holds everything that is, nature, love, feelings, emotions. When thinking of this I became interested in other examples where we use art to depict the beauty and sometimes terrifying nature within space. Within this blog, we will be expl