Week Seven 19th April - Using WWW

Lecture
This week's lecture's was about the World Wide Web.

In today's lecture Justine told us all about the World Wide Web and that this is one part and the Internet is the whole thing. The World Wide Web is in the Internet. The web is a space of where you can put information. Also the web wouldn't be there without the Net. World Wide Web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. His reasoning was "to facilitate sharing research information". Justine also talked about domain name system's and all the different types. Also about the protocols and what they were. Justine informed us of the tools needed to be able to get on the Web. Web browsers were another topic that was spoken about today. Justine explained to us about the interfaces of web pages and how they can help do things. She also gave us some short cuts using the keyboard to do different tasks.

Five things I learnt from the lecture and the tutorial.
1. I learnt when and why the World Wide Web was developed.
2. I learnt about the domain systems.
3. I also learnt about some more short cuts on the keyboard that I wasn't already currently aware of.
4. I learnt don't trust all websites because of face value even if it is totally believable.
5. I also learn about web browsers today.

Tutorial
In the tutorial today we looked up websites and looked at how authentic they were. The first to websites I looked at were; http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/ and http://www.molossia.org/ and answered some questions on them.
Here are the answer's to the them:
1a) Both websites have made an effort to make it look like they are a official website not just a fake website.
1. They over do it by trying to make it sounds so legit that it seems fake.
2. One is a organisational website and the other commercial which says that it could be a official website but then anyone can start up a website and it would be more believable if it had .gov or .edu as then it would be a government site or an education site then it would be more believable.
3. One of the website news section is not really the serious a bit silly really that's another sign of not a serious website.
4. They both talk about things that don't exist.
The second website I looked at was www.martinlutherking.org and did the questions required with this website.
Here are my answers:
2a) Racism, bias information, one sided arguments, and things to do with an organisation.
b) Yes it does it has .org on the end of the website address so that would mean it would be an organisational website.
3. My first impressions of the website were, in a way doesn't seem as bad as what I thought and even still some of the things that the articles titles say and descriptions don't seem right.
4. What I think about the website after reading the articles is that who ever wrote the website was rather against Martin Luther King and wanted to expose him as a bad person in more ways then just one. The website isn't very educational and who ever wrote it seems like they are trying to target people who don't know very much about him and are trying to make him out to be a violent person and a fake.

Readings
Reading 1: This reading was about search engine tutorials. It had a lot of websites you could go to on it to get some help on how to research. The websites were in different categories as to website thought the website and there are other website that aren't with this website. The website also has articles from 2004 and 2003 and 2002.

Reading 2: In this reading there is a time line starting from 1945 and finishes 1995. The time line is about the history of the world wide web. It tells us about how it first started and and it came around. The time lines tells us all the developments the world wide web had and it also states the people who had things to do with what was done to get it up and running. This website would be quite good if you ever had to do an assignment on the world wide web.

Reading 3: This reading is about the Internet it also has the history of the Internet on the website. The website has 5 chapter you can read about some of the history of what inventions are (first chapter), then how the Internet came about (second chapter), then how e-mail came about and the history of e-mail(third chapter), chapter four was about search engines and a bit of history on them and how they work and how to get he best information, and chapter five was about basic net data.


That's all for this week. See next week for more.

Brittany