When reading the article, World Wide Web, I came across many familiar terms and words that
are still part of the online world today.
Although common, I didn't know what a lot of them stood for or what
their actual role was. This article was
very informative and helped me come to understand the meaning behind these
online terms. For example, I learned
that HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It’s a protocol that transfers
"information with the efficiency necessary for making hypertext
jumps. The data transferred may be plain
text, hypertext, images, or anything else" (p. 794). Learning about all of these different
protocols helped me understand the history of the world wide web. The information in this article is most
likely overlooked today, as many people use the internet, but probably don't
know the history behind it. I was one of
those people until reading this article.
The part of the article about the future was also very
intriguing. It was interesting to gain a
perspective of how the future might look from someone in 1994. A lot of the
predictions were right on and the world wide web continues to grow every day
before our very eyes. Technology
continues to evolve at a rapid pace and the internet has already changed so
much. It will be interesting to see how
much more it can evolve.
Hey SCBaseball, This was a great post by you. This article was a very intriguing one indeed. I really like learning a little history about this whole thing that has really shook up the way our society works in the past 40 years or so. The world wide web is really a very important part within our society just from me being able to post this blog to the whole backbone of this class. All of these new social medias wouldnt be able to exist without the World Wide Web. This article really had a lot of terminology that is used throughout the internet and helped to explain how this World Wide Web really functioned. Again great response!!
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