Internet Fundamentals & History of the Internet & World Wide Web

1. COURSE INTENDED LEARNING
OUTCOMES (CILO)
1. Identify and recognize the internet technologies relevant for media & communication
2. Critically evaluate scope and function of new media
3. Analyze functionality of SEO & Online Advertising
4. Leverage Social Media as a Marketing Tool
5. Critique and evaluate security, copyrights and online privacy issues
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2. Identify and recognize
the internet technologies relevant for media & communication
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4. Defining the internet
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A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities,
consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols

5. INTERNET VS THE WEB
 The Internet is a network of
connected computers. No company
owns the Internet
 it is a cooperative effort governed by
a system of standards and rules. The
purpose of connecting computers
together, of course, is to share
information.
 It is build with Protocols Like FTP and
others which helps pass information
between computers
 The World Wide Web (known
affectionately as “the Web”) is just one
of the ways information can be shared
over the Internet
 It is unique in that it allows documents
to be linked to one another using
hypertext links—thus forming a huge
“web” of connected information.
 The Web uses a protocol called HTTP
( HyperText Transfer Protocol).
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7. Tim Berners Lee
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee also known as TimBL, is an English
computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
He made a proposal for an information management system in March
1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet
sometime around mid-November of that same year.

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9. READING LIST for next class
 STATEMENT FROM TIM BERNES LEE
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Has the Web tended to bring us together or polarized discourse? Has
easy access to information improved our policies and decision-making,
or has it amounted to noise?