(Under construction! this will soon be replaced with a better page unless I decide to reuse it as an archive. edit: imma use this as a place to see the writing better) 2/8/25

Hey you, welcome to my first diary entry! I've been neglecting this chunk of my website for the past month but atlas here I am! My name is Milagro. Last month I turned sixteen so yay for me! I can now finally get my driver's license and a part-time job, wooo hooo!!! Anyway, for many years I've been wanting to create my own website to connect with other artists & people in the same fandoms I'm in. So I hope you can tell I'm very happy that many of you have been signing my guestbook and leaving very sweet notes!! Plus following me!! Even though my website currently is very bare bones and blank. Thank you, thank you, thank you! I hope you enjoy the art and oc's I'll be creating in the future but for now, I'll be sharing what I've been learning in my first CBIS class!

What is networking? The question that'll be solved in this month (could turn weekly?) diary entry. Chapter 1 of Greg Tomsho's Guide to Networking Essentials (Seventh Edition) explores the computer's basic components and operations, the fundamentals of network communication, defining common networking terms, and a comparison of various networking models. Today I'll just cover the computer's basic components and operations. There are three basic functions of a computer: input, processing, and output. Input is the information given to the computer, an example is typing a letter on your keyboard, processing is the computer's CPU (central processing unit- it's where the computer receives its instructions!) to find the code of the typed letter, and output is the typed letter now on display.

Now we hop over to storage components! RAM stands for random access memory. By the name you can tell it's short term memory storage. When you turn off your computer this storage completely erases to a blank state until the CPU writes new data to it. RAM is very important because the CPU needs everything in RAM it has available to process, which is why it's called "working storage". Long-Term Storage is the data that's contained when there's no power to the device. Examples are hard disks, DVDs, CD's, USB flash drives, etc. Data is binary digits or as we know it, bits! Bits hold a 1 or 0 value. 0 is for the absence of voltage and 1 is for the presence of voltage! I'll continue tmrw...