Week 7

Lecture: In this weeks lecture we went through information on using the World Wide Web. The major points that were covered are: Internet vs Web, historical perspective of the Web, defining WWW, Web protocols and Web browsers/interface. On the Net you will find other computers and the connection is between cables, On the Web you will find documents, music, videos and other information, and the connection is bye the hypertext links. Historical perspective was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 to facilitate sharing research information. The Web is a universe of accessible information stored on computers throughout the world. The WWW is a network of computers using TCP/IP to communicate between each other. WWW protocols are TCP/IP - Transmission control, HTTP - hypertext transfer protocol, DNS - domain name system, and URL - uniform/universal resource locator. Web browsers are programs that allow users to access and explore the pages of the WWW, like www.internetexplorer.com and www.netscape.com.

Workshop: Part 1. We were asked to have a look at sites: www.haggishunt.scotsman.com and www.molossia.org and discuss their authenticity. With haggishunt I found this site to be authentic because they have: dates, well known sponsors, info on the haggis and haggis cams. I thought the site was only just authentic but is not a site I would use. The Molossia sit was more authentic due to having dates, being a .org site, has very good info on Molossia and having current information.
Part 2. We were asked to visit www.martinlutherking.org, but first write down what we are expected to find in this site - info on Martin Luther King. Then see if the site name gives us any clues on the site - his name is the Website. My first impressions of the site is that it is all about Martin Luther King. After looking at the different articles in the site I found it to mainly against Martin Luther King.

Readings: First there was readings on Search Engine Watch Tutorials - this is on a collection of articles from a search engine watch and how to use these search engines more effectively.
Second there was History of the WWW - this piece of reading material was on the origins of the Internet, how it became what it is today.