Week 4: Using the WWW

Lecture

The lecture this week was basically about the internet vs the WWW (World Wide Web).

The difference between the web and the internet is that the web operates via programs that communicate between the computer and the net.

What is WWW?
WWW stands for World wide web which is a universe of accessible information stored on computers throughtout the world. The information is available through a gigantic network caled the internet.

.com - commercial (of a commercial nature)
.org - organisation (non-profit)
.net - network (when .com is not available)
.gov - government
.edu - education

Task

Scotman site: http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/

The Scotsman site tries to look authentic by:

• The advertisements on the page, camvista.com
• There are prizes
• It seems tobe a promotional site with a competition
• Has membership registeration link

Molosia site: http://www.molossia.org/

This site tries tobe authentic by:

• Giving the visitor two options (Teacher click here, click here to enter)
• Has the history of the place
• It is a .org (organisation)
• In the teacher page it clearly shows that it is not an authentic site

Martin Luther King site: http://www.martinlutherking.org/

From lookning at the web address, I expected that this site was made up by an organisation. The contents of this site was expected tobe about Martin Luther King.

After visiting the site, it clearly shows that this was not any site deadicated to Martin Luther King. This site however was the opposite, with its racist made up quotes such as "I'm not a negro tonight".

This site was basically contained racist remarks on the African-American people by using Martin Luther King as the subject.

Extra Reading

A brief history of the internet

The internet is one of the biggest things in our daily lives today. It has changed the way we study and research. The internet was first invented by the navy to have a better communication. It started in the 1980’s and ever since then it has been developed around the world.

History of the World-wide Web

This website talks about the history of computers and the World Web. In the article there are five different chapters. The first chapter talks about the development of computers till the late 1960’s. The second chapter is on going from Arpanet to the Internet. The third chapter is all about the history of electronic mail. The fourth chapter is about search engines and the last chapter gives you a basic insight to basic net data on the internet.