Web Communications 101: Communication and Collaboration Online
Topic 1.2 ...And the World Wide Web?
“Introduction
It has become common to refer to the Internet and the World Wide Web as if they were pretty much the same thing. As we have seen this is not the case. The Internet is a system of hardware and software which enables the connection of multiple computers. The Web is an application that makes use of this functionality, just as email, Instant Messaging and other applications do. Accessed through clients named web browsers, the Web is a series of 'hypertext' documents all linked to each other to form a 'web' of information. However, it is the World Wide Web that constitutes the everyday 'public face' of the Internet, and which permeates our perception and cultural understandings of it.
Instructions
In this section we are going to examine the history and technologies behind the World Wide Web and the implications of hypertext on our understandings of information and writing.
Read through the information and videos below in your own time. You don't have to click every link, just pursue those that interest you and ignore those that don't. It's hypertext, after all...
If you are an external student, complete the activities as you come across them in the text.”
Part one:
We were asked to think about a little more history. As We May Think Interesting in its self. An article concerning, “The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause” during WW2.
I viewed Doug Engelbart's 1968 Demo (3 of 9) concerning Hypertext on YouTube. I clicked the link for the proposal for the Hyper Link Project , and noted that “Hypertext is a way to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will. It provides a single user-interface to large classes of information (reports, notes, data-bases, computer documentation and on-line help)”. I was even interested in The First Web Pages (which was in its self full of hypertext links). I thought I would have fun with the hyperlinks myself, as you may have noticed above.
Part two:
Understanding HTML and the web.
From information: “HTML is a language that describes how a page should look when it is viewed in a web browser.” And URLS: “The addresses on the Web with which we have become so familiar are known as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).”
Discovering that there are a few different URL formats
Web : http://www/.
FTP : ftp://ftp/.
Email : mailto:user@host
Usenet : news://user:password@host:port/newsgroup
I experimented with: “Have a look now. Go to the menu of your browser and locate a menu item named 'view page source' or similar.”
This is an example of what I saw. A source code document. (some of it)
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link href="style1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<title>Topic 1.2: ...and what is the World Wide Web?</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!—
I then looked at WYSIWUG (what you see is what you get, via Wikipedia) which you may find interesting. As it describes a system where content is very similar to the final product.
Activity 1
Open up Blackboard in a separate window.
"Now click on the button with the two angled brackets (see above). This is the HTML code that the editor has created from your text. Now click the same button to return to the standard view. Highlight the text and use the bold button to make it, well, bold. Now click the <> button again. What has changed? Now click the button again, remove the bolding and convert the text to italics. Again, click the button to see how the underlying code has changed. Feel free to continue experimenting to see the impact of your changes to the HTML - try adding a link to the text and see what happens..."
<strong>HELLO WORLD</strong> caused the “hello world” to become bold.
<em>HELLO WORLD</em> created italics.
<em>HELLO WORLD</em> <a href="http://loulounilly.blogspot.com/2010/09/web-101-week-2-topic-11-what-is.html">http://loulounilly.blogspot.com/2010/09/web-101-week-2-topic-11-what-is.html</a> is the resulting source code when I include a link to my blog spot.
Part two Hyper text
Doesn’t seem to be particularly suited to on line novels with the exception of Victory Garden What Fits and Twelve Blue
How Big Is The Web
1 x 12 lots of 0. Indexed by Google in 2008.
Activity 2
Going Way Back.......
Click the link Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
The data that was displayed for Curtin University starts in 1996. (which had 0 entries).
I accessed January 11, 1997.
Web Science 101 - an elective unit about today's Internet was prominent on the page.
I looked at:
Apple.com (October 1996) – (extremely simple site)
Google.com (November 1998, back when it was a prototype)
Welcome to Google
Google Search Engine Prototype
Might-work-some-of-the-time-prototype that is much more up to date.
Wikipedia.org (July 2001, back when they had over 6,000 articles!)
We started in January 2001 and already have over 6,000 articles
dominos.com (February 1997 - To find out where their 1000th store was...) *cough* Perth!!
It seems that I am not worth the mention: 0 pages found for http://loulounilly.blogspot.com/
My thoughts
Extremely interesting, being able to access a site like the 'way back machine' was fascinating. I’m learning more with everything that I read and interaction of the information. Excellent.
References
(2007). Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo - 3 of 9. Retrieved April 1st, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYCMlMidvTM.
(2007). newmedia2.jpg [Image].: schwartztronica.
(2008). We knew the web was big. Retrieved April 4th, 2009, from http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html
Curtin University Unit information: Web Communications 101. Communication and Collaboration Online.
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