Week 3 ..... and the question 'what is the World Wide Web?' is thrust upon us. Let us see if my notes get us any closer to the answer! As with my last post, these are my notes taken during the weeks lecture. May not make sense, hopefully will do so to my brain.
But first - I found these little gems from the end of the last note taking session:
What did people do with the internet? Email! @ version invented in 1971 Ray Tomlinson
Email made the internet social
Newsgroups - USENETalt* the first chat groups
William Gibson - 'Neuromancer' defined cyberspace
Back to the question at hand...what is the world wide web?
* most popular application on the internet *
Vannevar Bush 'As we may think' 1945
- Machine to retrieve all human knowledge from/to a desktop
- Associative patterns (nodes)
Englebart - "The Mother of all demo's", 1968
sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
- Invented the 'mouse' and demo'd keyboard + mouse interaction
1968 - ARPAnet changed names to Internet
1989/90 - Berners-Lee proposal www.w3.org/proposal.html
1999 - Tim Berners-Lee writes about his original world wide web proposal.
HTTP - hypertext transfer protocol
HTML - hypertext markup language
URL - uniform resource locator
protocols, web server, language and browser editor = world wide web
web server - server sits holding information, sends information - always on.
Browser editor - tool that gave organisation & access to the web
First browser - Mosaic 1.0 released in 1993, making the web accessible and popular
April 1993 all web protocols and related material released into the public domain shaping it into an entirely accessible protocol.
"information highway" v's "surf the web" (fluid, ephemeral, nodal)
Books to read if you are really interested : Janet Abbate - Inventing the Internet Hypertext 3.0
Berners-Lee - Weaving the Web
The activités for this week, I responded to on the DB.
cheers
Sarah
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