WEEK FOUR

21.03.08

USING THE WWW

Lecture
Today's lecture I did from home because it is Good Friday. I downloaded the power point presentation from Black Board and took some notes.
From the slides I learnt the difference between the Internet and the Web.

• Web: You can find documents, sounds, video's and information from programs.
  Connections on the web are hypertext links.
• Internet: Connections to the Internet are cables between computers.
• Internet finds computers.
  

I also learnt to define WWW (world wide web)
Its a universe of accessible information that's stored on computers throughout the world. This information is available on a gigantic network called the Internet.

This is a screen capture of one the slides. The slide shows what tools are needed when connecting and using the WWW. (ie, computer, modem etc.)

I also learnt from the slides that web browsers allow users to access and explore the pages from the WWW.
For example the program FireFox. http://www.firefox.com/ allow the user to search for useful information on the Web.

From the slides i learnt some WWW Protocols. Some of these include:

• TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol
• HTTP - Hypertext transfer protocol
• DNS - Domain Name System
• URL - Uniform/ Universal Resource Locator.

Tutorial

Task 1.

For this week I also had to do it all at home. I downloaded the worksheet from Black Board and did the tasks myself.
The lecture was focusing on the Internet and the Web. Continuing from that, in task 1, we were asked to look at the two websites given http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/ and also http://www.molossia.org/.

We then had to look at the sites and see if we thought they were authentic and real.
Four reasons why i do not believe the haggis site is authentic is:

• There is no such animal as a haggis, it is a type of cooked food.
• There is no Contact Us on the home page.
• The Haggis Facts where all jokes
• You cannot hunt an animal when it does no exist.

This is a screen capture of the haggis wed site we had to look at.

Task 2.
For task 2 we were asked to look at a website www.martinlutherking.org
Before doing so we were to write down what we thought the web site may contain. I thought it might consist of:

• Information about
• History of Martin Luther King
• Details of the speech he did
• When he died
• The effect he had on the people
  

When I opened the site the first thing a saw was a picture of King and tabs surrounding him.

This is a screen capture of the Martin Luther King Web site.

Task 3.
My first impressions of the web site where the following:

• The site included some information on King
• It advertised promotional video's
• It suggested other links and sites to go to of similar information
• It also included some fun novelties such as a quiz and racial rap lyrics.
  

Task 4.
After looking at the site I found that is was not authentic. After further progress is discovered the site had links to information on Martin Luther King. It also had a very racial rap song written about him. This included link to people's essays on human rights, the Jewish community and also civil rights. These links would allow the user to access for advanced information on a certain topic.

Reading.
This week there were two readings. The first one was called 'The History of the Internet'. This included:

• Time lines
• Initial Internetting
• Authors
• Origins of the Internet
• Introduction to the Internet
  and more.

I think this information is important to understanding what the Internet is and how it all started

The second reading was called "History of The World Wide Web'.
This included how the web started and different items found on the web, including:

• Development of computers
• History of electronic mail
• Different Search Engines
• Basic Internet Data.