This weeks lecture focused on the World wide web. Definitions and meanings of many internet terms were mentioned such as; Domain name system (DNS) and also things like World Wide Web. Including the different domains used for different webstites such as;
- Government- .gov
- Commercial- .com
- Education- .edu
- and Organization- .org
Also was the description of a URL and what each part of it ment, having the region and the domain to help locate it and make it easier to find it. This was very useful because many of these things i had no idea what it was actually there for until this lecture. I also learned from this lecture the history of the internet and how they first brought the internet to the public.
Tutorial Summary
During the tutorial, we visited two websites, from these websites we had to determine whether they were legit and real websites. They were;
The first Website we visited was http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/ . It's authenticity was definetely questionable. It's interface and basic appearance seemed normal and just like other websites, it had a URL and functioned exactly the same as a regular website, this was the most obvious reason why it looked authentic. The website looked like a normal legit website, having picture and definitions and information on it's topic. It has a home page and a login section, which indicacted to me (the reader) that by signig up and logging in to the website it is very real and authentic. Although as i read closely, it was things like it's topic which tipped off the fact that it was a fake. Particular names and terms used in the website such as; "the Haggis Hunt" and "Haggis Season" made it obvious that it was not real.
Reasons to Believe this Website is not real;
- 'Haggis' not a real animal
- Haggis Season does not exist
- Names and defintions prove it to be fake
- The official website 'Scotsman.com' not real
The second Website we visited was http://www.molossia.org/. When first looked at this website looked very Authentic for many of the same reasons, it had a URL and a homepage, it also appeared to be a homepage about a place called 'Molossia'. This included an emblem with the languages writing on it. On the website it is the 'official website' having the temperature and many dates and events mentioned, this all makes it look authentic and real.
Reasons to believe this website is not Real:
- Molossia- not a real place
- language does not exist
- Fake flag
- Fake president
The Website http://www.martinlutherking.org/ suggested to me- by the URL, that it was an ode to Martin Luther King and i assumed (because it's domain was .org.) that it was made in sponsor of him and honouring him. As i read through the website, it was very negative and biased against martin Luther King. It had 'articles' stating that he was a bad person and did not go by what he preached. This made it clear that the websites URL gave the wrong impression of what it was actually all about and that the website was very against Martin Luther King.
Reading One
"A brief history of the Internet'
This reading was interesting, it explained the origins of the internet where it came from and how it all happened to become one of the most used sources of information in the world. In 1972 the first few steps of the internet was created and a demonstration was shown to the public. It became the ARPANET which was highly successful. Electronic mail(E-mail) was also created around this time. Although J.C.R. Licklider was the first in 1962 to write a series of memos as a networking system which sparked the first concept of the internet. The internet was created to create a network for sharing information. This could be done by connecting to different sources of information and sending information from computer to computer. In 1972 a packet data progam called DARPAwas created and using this was called internetting. These were working although certain things were not achievable with ARPANET and DARPA. A new version was created. one which could meet the need of the open achitecture network environment.
The collaboratioin of ARPANET and the internet in the 1970's made a huge economical impact by having E-mail available. Being a new way to communicate it was very popular.When the internet started to arrive on personal/desktop computers, the original TCP was to large to fit and so David Clarke and MIT started to compact the data to arrive at something which would be used on all computers.
During the 80's the internet concept grew and florished, slowly being used by more and more of the general public. They eventually decided to give the host's a name. These hosts were used on a daily basis and it was beginning to be hard to remember the addresses so it was a necessity to give them titles and names. Paul Mockapetris then came up with the solution, creating a name system, which became the Domain Name System (DNS).
On Jan 1st 1983, Was considered a "Flag Day" in the internets growth, this was the transtion of the ARPANET host protocol from NCP to TCP/IT. This required all hosts to convert over, all simultaneously. BY 1985 the internet was well and successfully established, Being used daily for many different purposes. In the two decades since it's creation, it has grown and developed as have our culture for using it. The internet, as the reading suggests has lots of room to grow as it expands every da
A screen Shot of the World Wide Web and the transition it has made to today. (A Brief History of the Internet, 2003)
