Week four, 21st March 2008: Using the WWW

Lecture
The lecture this week started off with a few questions, when the internet started, who invented the internet and what WWW stands for. All questions were very informing, I founnd what TCP and IP stand for, which was very useful. The whole lecture was about, the internet vs the web, historical perspective and definging the WWW.

Internet vs web-The internet finds computers and the connections are by cables between computers, where as the net you find documents and the connections are by hypertext links.

Historical Perspective-The internet firsy started in 1989, by Tim Berners-Lee (a researcher at CERN). The reason for the internet was to facilitate sharing research information.

Defining the WWW(world wide web)-The web allows people to access information which is available on the internet. Linked together by a common protocol, network servers allow access to millions of hypertext resources.

WWW protocols-
TCP/IP- Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol
HTTP- Hypertext Transfer Protocol
DNS- Domain Name System
URL- Universal Resource Locator


Tutorial (Work Shop Four)
Each website contains the copyright and the latest edited year. Also each website have a menu which is a usually what an authentic website consist of.

4 clues that give each website away-
http://haggishunt.scotsman.com/
1. The subject is unusual
2. Advertising, an authentic website would not contain unusual advertisements.
3. The quality of the pictures of the haggis are not real, they are probably off the internet.
4. Haggis is not exactly real.

http://www.molossia.org/countryeng.html
1. The marqee on the website seems too over the top.
2. The website does not look very professional for a republic.
3. The official site of a rebublic or any country for that matter would have matters concerning the people, but instead this site only contains unauthentic material such as media, 'special links' etc.
4. "The Government of the Republic of Molossia takes no responsibility for the content of external links" this taken from the site also proves it is a spoof, as an official site would not contain external links containing content not safe to computers.

At first, looking at the URL i thought that http://www.martinlutherking.org/ would be an informative website about Martin Luther King and what he did to become so well known. After looking at the website for the first time, it was clear that the website was a spoof. There are gramatical errors and also unrelevant links to so called 'rap lyrics'

From reseaching other material from Martin Luther King and taking a closer look into martinlutherking.org, it was evident that this web site was written by a person who does not have authentication on the subject.
The biography of Martin Luther King is everywhere and has no coherance what so ever, it is very ammateur and looks like it was made by someone most probably around my age.This is obvious because, by looking at other websites they seem more reliable as the grammar and use of languange is much more understandable and the websites are more trust worthy.

Screen Shots

Print screen shot of the Martin Luther King website

Readings
Reading One: 'A Brief History of the Internet'

This reading (as the title says) just gives a brief history of the internet, on such things as its origins, the initial role of the internet, etc.

Reading Two: ‘ History of the World-wide Web’

The second reading is also on the history of the World Wide Web. It includes such things as, the development of computers, the history of electronic mail, information on search engines, etc.