USING THE WWW: The internet versus the web:
Before the net the web:
In 1965 a computer in massachusetts was connected to one on california with the help of a low dial up telephone line. This was where the first ideas regarding the internet were evolved.
Defining the www:
The web is a place where all the universal information is stored for everyone around the world to access. A betwork of servers are joined together by an alike protocol.
World Wide Web Abbreviation:
.com(commercal)
.org(organistion tht is non profit.
.net(network primrily ue when com isn't equipped)
.gov(government)
.eu(euction)
SUMMARY:
This lecture has outlined the importance of the computer and shown it's humble origins and how far it has come.
TUTORIAL ACTIVITY WEEK FOUR TASK ONE:
Haggis Hunt Website
Four Clues That Give The Site Away As A Joke Site:
1.
There is no such site in existance called the glenneagles hotel where supposedly the people had won a holiday. When I logged on to the sitethe page couldn't be found showing that the site didn't exist showing that the site was created for a joke.
2.
On the our ghillie:farquar farson site when describing Farquar a joke is made of the Hggis's profile stating that he probably was born and jokes were made regarding his sex. This is furtyher evidence that the Haggishunt site was primarily created to make people laugh.
3.
A joke is made when describing the Haggis poking fun at it's appearance and characteristics. If this was a non-satirical site the words used to describe the Haggis would be more serious and to a large extent more informative.
4.
The site uses the words Haggis season poking fun at what surely is seen as a serious event in the normal day-to-day lifestyle of those people who do hunt real wild animals.
SUMMARY:
This tutorial activity has helped show what is fake and what is real on the internet. By doing the Haggis activitry it has helped explain how to lkook for something that is satirical on the internet and how to look for real information.
TUTORIAL ACTIVITY WEEK FOUR:TASK TWO:
Martin Luther King site:
Thoughts Prior to going onto the site:
When i first saw the words Martin Luther king located on a website i though immediately that this site would contain information on one of two things.
1. I Either the site was going to be an infotrmation site detailing a history of doctor king's goals,his beliefs and values and how he helped the african americans fight for justice based on these values.
2. My other initial idea of what the site would contain was a full version of Martin Luther King's " I have a dream" speech and the details of how he died.
Impressions Of The Site After Searching It:
This site martinlutherking.org was not what I expected it to be. I was expecting the site to be a look at the life of the man who fought for the rights of African-Americans. This site does nothing but slander the name Martin Luther King describing him as a person who prominantly plagiorised other peoples words and made them his own. This site also describes Dr.King as a selfish person who only fought for his own wants, not a selfless person fighting for the rights of his people which we know is the truth. The most disturbing link of this site is the dearh of the dream link. This section looks at the last day of king's life describing him as a man who sat in court and then later " supposedly" drinking and squareing and downing his own race. This is not true and angers me because history tells us for a fact that king died in his hotel room after giving a speech that fought for the rights of African-Americans every step of the way.
Final Summary Of Martin Luther King:
After googling Martin Luther King I know for sure that the martinlutherking.org site is a fake invented only for the benefits of white supremacists who have ficticious ideas of who should be allowed in this world. The numerous sites on google confirmed what i already knew about Dr King through my primary and highschool education that he was a selfless person who fought up until the day of his death for the rights of the African-American people to give them a vote and ultimately mage sure they luived in a country where they were valued just as much as any other man, woman or child.
SUMMARY:
This second tutorial activity has helped show how to look for what is a true informative site on the internet and how to seperate the true informative sites from the ones that don't tell the truth.
WEEK FOUR READING ONE SUMMARY: HISTORIES OF THE INTERNET:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET:
Histories Of the Internet:
The invention of the internet has changed the way people all over the world communicate with each other and the way in which they view the happenings in the outside world. The internet has also revolutionised the ways in which we locate and utalise information for research and work purposes, and the quantity of information we now have access to has also changed. Before the internet the problem was not having enough information to complete research and assignments, now the problem is having too much information and not knowing what and what not to use.
The Beginnings of The Internet:
The first signs that social interactions took place on the computer was realised and documented by J.C.R. Licklider in August 1962. After Licklider there followed a huge number of others who researched further to discover how this new sensation worked and how they could further the technology and speed of the internet.
The first Internet Concepts:
The internet first developed as a program called the ARPANET and it was later renamed the internet. The original plan for the internet was that it would be a location where a huge number of different networks could operate together first starting with the arpanet the process was given the name open-architecture network.
The idea of the open-architecture network was that each website was to be seperately designed and given it's own inter face. Open-Architecture networking was first formulated in 1972 by a man named Kahn. The idea of internet architechture was originmally a part of a program called the packet radio program, however it soon broke off and formed it's own program and at the time the idea was given the name " Internetting". Several attempts were made to launch open-architecture but nono of them could cope with the content so Kahn invented his own program. Kahn invented his own protocol called transmission control protocol/internet protocol(TC/ICP)
Kahn launched his new idea at a meeting in Sussex but the original launch of TC/ICP was not an initial success as many of the programs failed to work. TC/ICP today is working and is very successful.
Expansion Of The Internet:
While TCP was up and running people were running othjer programs on the internet to see if they worked and if they had any popularity with the people. Some sites such as ARPNET and BITNET were there only for the use of scholars and professionals in the field.
The Role Of Documentation
On of the key ideas in the formulating of the internet was to leave it open to the people to have their say and if they weren't happy with the current form the internet was in to add their own websites into the fray. People having their say has become largely popular with the invention of such websites as hotmail and recently such social sites as myspace and facebook.
The Internet And The Wider Community:
The internet is a formation of communities of websites and technologies and has from it's beginning been getting bigger and bigger to what it is today. Today more than 50% the internet is made up of socoial chat sites as well as educational and information sites. The Myspace site alone is the biggest chat site to date following in second place facebook. These sites have expanded from the original hotmail site where the onjective was just to chat online. Now on myspacve and facebook you haver your own personal pages where you are able to leave messages and comments for the people whom you want to see them and you can also post pictures on the sites.
The Commercialisation Of Technology:
The idea of promoting the internet and all it's good points to the public took a lot of work and consideration for how it was going to be done. The most popular way was to incorperate TCP/IP into the internet products. However this didn;t work for the corporations trying to push TCP/IP onto the people. The people found the TCP/IP way of networking boring and a big nuisence so another way of promoting the TCP/IP approach to the people had to be decided. This was dione in 1985 by Dan Lynch. Dan Lynch saw that the lack of information regarding TCP/IP had pushed people away so he set up a three day workshop explaining to the vendors the sterengths and weaknesses of the TCP/IP networking system and what still needed to be done to improve the network.
Thanks to these meetings in which everyone was made aware of the successes and failures of the YCP/IP network the network has now been a huge success for more than a decade and now new and excciting ideas are developing in regards to the commercialisation of the internet.
What Lies Ahead For The Internet:
The internet has come a long way from the TCP/IP program and has survived a number iof drastic changes with the introductions of perasonal computers(PCs) and other new faster programs. However the internet is still growing and changing with it being one of the biggest forms of business and communication nretworks with the inventions of such sites as myspace and facebook. The internet when it first initiated was something people ran away from but it is now something people all over the world have embraced with open arms.
SUMMARY:
This reading has helped explain the importance of the history of the internet. Knowing how it initiated has helped to explain where it is today.
READING TWO SUMMARY: HISTORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB(WWW):
The Path Of Computers:
The internet is a phononomom that allows information to be shared and sent from one computer to the next from countries all over the world and this has been made possible with the invention of the world wide web.
The Development Of Computers:
The internet is a huge and wonderful thing that has expanded communication beyond the realms of what anyone imagined. However before you can access the internet you must have a computer from which to access the internet. The first idea of having computers was initiated by a man called Sammuel Morse in 1844. His idea was initiated by electronic impulses and a key and a special code which sequenced impulses to the computer and forced letters tro come up on the screen. You then had to link Morses invention to the invention of the calculating machine with a difference and one such machine was Charles Babbage's difference engine. However this difference engine was a failure and the computer didn't develop further and was not utilised unless there was a war situation and the small technology the computer had opened up was required then.
The computer itself did not have any other major business or social developments until the year 1961 when the company IBM introduced a way for seperate offices in seperate terminals to access the same hardware. This opened up posibilities of computers in different locations to be set up to the same hardware all over the world.
SUMMARY:
This reading has helped to explain the development of computers.
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