Clearing caches

Tech Talk #196–January 21, 2023 In its widespread non-technical use, a cache (pronounced cash) is a collection of items of the same type stored in a hidden or inaccessible place. In the technical world, a cache can be hardware or a specific software location that stores recently used data. As a result, programs can quickly access data from a cache. Clearing your caches can help troubleshoot problems with specific websites, free up disk space, remove

What is Web3?

Tech Talk #195–January 11, 2023 Have you heard of this new thing, Web 3.0, also known as Web3? It’s the future of the internet, they tell us. But what is Web3, and whatever happened to Web1 and Web 2-if there were such things? We refer to the first publicly available version of the internet as Web 1.0. In this version of the internet, web pages were collections of read-only pages, and there was almost no