Today’s lecture notes, ‘Using the www’ have been my favourite module so far. Something I have used and depended on for so long was Broken down so I could actually understand it. The Internet. In the PowerPoint presentation the Internet was Broken down to its core and origin. Though a lot of the workshop was on the history, the lecture discussed:
- The Internet vs. The web
- The historical perspective of the www
- Defining the web
- Web protocols
- Web browsers and Interfaces
The tutorial workshop looked at 5 questions, and 3 websites.
The first two questions are aimed a two websites; www.haggishunt.scotsman.com and www.molossia.org.
- How have the websites sttempted to be authentic?
- List at least four clues that give this site away as a spoof?
These last three questions are directed at; www.martinlutherking.org.
1. What do you expect to find, on it based on the URL?
By first looking at the URL, i first notice that it is not a .com but an .org, being short for organisation, which automatically makes this source reliable because it is based on a organisation or vice versa.
2. After visiting the website what are your first impressions?
It looks like a joke to me. They’re hyperlinks, to rap lyrics a new student pop quiz. In the corner is a small exert, exploiting racial slurs on the eve of King’s assassination.
3. After researching the website, what do you think?
I agree with my prediction, this site is base on slandering Martin Luther King, saying his sermons were plagiarized, accusing MLK of stealing the church’s offering to hire prostitutes and then beating them whilst engaging in perverse sexual encounters. This website’s purpose is beat down Martin Luther King’s well known reputation.
If their was a fight between the Internet and the web, who would win??? To tell you the truth i don’t know because up and till this point i believed them to be on the same side, in fact the same thing all together. Apparently not, but they both have a co-dependent relationship with each other – needing the other to do their job. The web is a virtual space of information and the net is the technical partner connecting us all the web. The journey of the web began in 1989, developed by a researcher Tim Berners-Lee, and if i must say so myself, he truly did do his research, and because he did so can we, pun intended.
Reading One: A Brief History of the Internet.
This not very brief history of the internet, covers everything their is to know about the life of the computer, from the begginning to now. It takes you through the steps creating the internet, The idea, '' The Galactic Network 'in August 1962 by J.C.R Licklider. That very concept is now our modern day internet. Then their was ARPANET, In 1969, which was also the year of the first computer. By the end of that very year their were 4 host computers connected together, just like licklider invisioned.
Chapter One: The development of computers until the 1960’s.
The Internet enables communication and transferral of information and data between computers at any location. It wasn’t always like that. The first chapter, ‘The origins of growth of the internet and the world wide web’, speaks of inventions and innovations. The internet is an extremely new technical development, but this chapter, draws back to the early inventions before their innovations. For example the first ever textile machine was not scientific, in comparison to a 21st century sewing machine, it was made largely of wood and pulleys. It also discusses the calculator which dates back as far as 500BC.
Chapter Two: From ARPANET to world wide web.
1957, Geophysical year. The year USA planned to launch a small earth orbiting satellite. That was until Russia launched the sputnik before them into orbiting space. In reaction America developed ARPA ( Adavenced Research Projects Agency). John Licklider was to lead this innovation; just after the release of his concepts ‘Galatic Networks.’ After ARPANET a plan for a computer network system was published, in 1967 so was the first IMP, an interface messager protocol. ARPANET wents public in 1972 at the first internation conference on computers and communication. Through this ARAPNET developed into what we now know yo be as Email, and ARPANET to the Net. The WWW concept created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, and a year ;ater a browser, in 1993 there was no more than 150 websitess on the web. Look at the rapid progress technology has made in just over an decade.
Chapter Three: History of Electronic Mail
In 1871 Ray Tomlison sent the world’s first email using ARAPNET. Then usenet was established in 1979.usenet differed from ARPANET, beauce you could acess you emails when the reader felt like it, where every they liked it.
Chapter Four: Search Engines
In 1990 the first search engine was created. It was used to search for computer files, because the web was getting to hard to search with the increasing number of websites on offer, so the created ‘Archie’ to help. This way you could browse and download files as you please. Then databases named, ‘spider’ were developed to sort all the information into groups, and archives. None of the early serves still exists like spider or Archie, but as ti9me changed and developed so did they, and so they changed in to the servers we use today like Google and yahoo
Chapter Five: Basic Net Data.
Internet users have grown dramatically since it’s development began. The growth of the internet is feeding a free for all “Global Village’ for anyone to join. Though not every one is getting the internet. There are still large areas in the world not being affected by the internet boom, or even reaching it.
Refernce List
- Scotsman. (2008). Retrieved bu March 17, 2008, from Scotsman.com: http://members.scotsman.com/
- http://www.molossia.org/countryeng.html
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