Week 4 - Using the WWW

Summary of lecture

Questions answered at the start of the lecture:

1. Who invented the internet?
Tim Bernas-Lee

2. What year was the first webpage invented?
1989

3.What does WWW stand for ?
world wide web

4. What are TCP and IP?
TCP = transmission control protocol IP = Internet Protocol

5. What is HTML & what does it do?
Hypter text markup language - A markup language created for the creation of webpages with hypertext and other information on the net.

6. What does URL stand for?
uniform resource locator.

7. List at least 3 domain name endings other than '.com'
.net
.au
.edu
.gov
.org


During the lecture today we learnt about :
the internet vs the web
hisorical perspect of the internet
defining protocoles
web browsers
web protocols

what is the diffrence between the internet and the web?
the internet is something physical that you can actually see. it is the connecting of comptuers. the web however is what we actully call the internet its where you find google. the web is what you cant see its the connections of hypertext links where you can find anything you want.

did you know: the the first paper on packet switching theory came about in july of 1961. (packet switching theory: the transfering of packets between computers)

Summary of the workshop
Today we were asked to have a look at a couple of websites and discuss why they looked authentic and why they didnt apear authentic at the same time. it was part of helping us understand how websites can look real but they are really not.

summary of haggishunt
http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/

4 reasons why the website appears authentic.

* They offer instructions to the haggis hunting ground.
* They have a merchandise shop which most websites do have.
* They have prizes for those who find the haggis
* They have webcams set up for the enthusiastic hunter to watch the haggis all year round.

4 reasons why the website appears a fake.

* The website does not own its own domain name it is set up through a free website maker and hosted through scotsman.com a real website would have brought its own domain name.
* When you click the webcams it takes you to another website that is for peoples general fun to have a look at whats happening around the world.
* the haggis looks suspiciously like a cross between an echidna and a playtpus.
* The text content of the website is written in a joking manner which makes it hard for the reader and enthusiast to take it seriously.

evaluation of mollossia
http://www.molossia.org/news.html


4 reasons why the website appears authentic.

* They have a news link which every government website displays.
* They show the current time and temprature in mollossia.
* They have a 'president'
* They give the location.

4 reasons why the website appears fake.

* The layout of the website is cluttered and un-proffessionally set out any government would have a professional desgin the website.
* The content of the website suggests that the republic of mollossia have not yet made it to this century.
* The content is very over exagerated.
* The website is at a .org address when all governments have theirsl isted at .gov

evaluation of http://www.martinlutherking.org/

thoughts before i had a look at the content of the website: I think that this website is going to contain biographical information on martin luther king and maybe some pictures and a time line of his life.

first impressions: This website is all about Martin Luther King although its not about as much the past as more about the present and what we can do to help.

After Research: I believe that some of the things that were written in regards to King using church money to hire prositutes and beating them is ridiculous. King was all about bringing the peace and i cant see why he would something like this it totally contradicts what he was about. This website is trying to portray king as someone he wasnt.

Reading summary 1 : A brief history of the internet

This website talks about the first memos that were put on the internet. Leonard Kleinrok(MIT) was the first person who published a paper on the packet switching theory. The packet switching theory is about the first computers who were able to send information between them, they were small wide- area computers and only 4 were linked up in the beggining, but after three years of improving their work 26 computers were able to be linked together.
APERNET originally grew into the internet, the idea that they had was to have multiple individual networks and they were eventually able to achieve this.

Reading summary 2: History of the WWW

This article talks about computers in the past. The theorys that people had, that resulted in the WWW exsisting today. It mainly talks about the transition from APERNET to the WWW, saying how APERNET was created and by who, and then how the WWW came into exsistance, which was by linking together 4o computers that were in different locations. In 1972 the first person to person communiction took place, which we now call email and then a common laungage was developed so that different networks could communicate with each other.