Week Seven

Today's lecture was all about the World Wide Web (www). We were informed that not all the information that is on the WWW is real. When I started to think about this I realised how true this statement was. There are so many bogus sites out there it makes it hard to differentiate between what is real and what isn't.

• The World wide web and the Internet are different things. The Internet is bigger than the web, where the www is only a part of the Internet.
• On the Internet you find computers, where as on the Web, you find information.
• The Internet is the network, where the web gets its information from.
• The Internet was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, an employee at CERN, in 1989. He invented the Internet so he could share research information between sections of the CERN laboratories.

Some definitions that I knew of, but didn't know what they stood for:

• TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol
• HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
• DNS: Domain Name System
• URL: Uniform/ Universal Resource Locator

I also learnt that the web address for a site isn't just a bunch of letters and numbers put together. They actually mean and understand something, when they are broken down. For example: www.hotmail.com.au

www stands for world wide web, the hotmail is the server, the com is because it is a commercial site and the au, because it is an Australian site.

Tutorial Task

In today's tutorial we handed in our blog from weeks 1 through to 6. We then chose our groups for our next assignment. After that we had the opportunity to do our Tutorial task in class.

Task 1:

From looking at the sites www.haggishunt.scotman.com it appeared to be authentic. I thought this because it had links to a facts page, a merchandise shop, and a winners page for the games you could play on the site. But looking at the site in more detail, I noticed that the pictures of the Haggis creature appeared to be digitally edited. This is so because Haggis isn't really a creature. When looking through the graphics it had on the site it showed a picture of what was labeled 'cooked Haggis'.

We also had to look at the site www.molossia.org as a part of our task. This site straight away said to me DODGY. It did not look professional enough to be a web site for a country. It had a link on the site to its new national anthem, which I couldn't even open. And when I tryed other links, I couldn't get any of them to open, on the computers on campus at Uni, and on my home computer. Also the fact that it had a .org and the end of the web address, which would mean that it was an organisations website, not a country's.

Task 2:

www.martinlutherking.org . From just looking at this web address its seems the site is going to be about Martin Luther King. Especially with it having .org on the end. But from the activity we are doing, I have a feeling that the address is a spoof and is going to totally lead us in the wrong direction.

Task 3 & 4:

So after looking at the site for a while, it appears to me to be someone trying to demoralise Martin Luther King. I came across a brochure on the website, that is trying to promote school students to print off and pass around school or leave in public places for people to find.

I later found out that this particular site was put on the web by a terrible anti-negro group in America. So from that point in time I closed the website and forgot about it.