First IS Lesson: The Internet & WWW

Yesterday was my first IS class. I posted this late because there's other things to handle. As you know, our first lesson is The Internet & WWW. Our teacher is Mr. Kent. He introduced himself with a video. The video can be seen at the website that Mr. Kent created. After that, he showed us his own website ( http://webnewmedia.ning.com/ ). He also taught us about The Internet &WWW with a presentation (http://www.docstoc.com/docs/21243409/TheInternetandWWW).

This is a 57 paged presentation. There are many objectives in this presentation, such as the history of Internet, types of websites, how to access and connect to the Internet, analyze IP address, the purpose of Internet, types of e-commercee, the steps required for web publishing and more. Firstly, the Internet originated from APRANET. It allows scientistat different locations to share information with each other. It also functions if part of the network were disabled. At 1969, there are only 4 host nodes in the world. But today, the number of host noeds have exceeded 200 million. So the Internet has grown a lot compared to the past.

There are three ways to access to the Internet. They are ISP, OSP and Wireless Internet Service Provider. Everyboby might have saw WWW before, but they might don't know what does WWW stands for. It stands for World Wide Web. It is a world wide collection of electronic documents and each of them is called a Web page. Besides of WWW, we also used web browser oftenly. They are programs that allows you to view Web pages. There are different kinds of web browser like Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla, Opera and Netscape.

When our teacher asked us what is URL. We don't know how to answer. It stands for Unifrom Resource Collector. It is web server that delivers the Web page to your computer. They are 9 basic types of websites. They are portal, news, infromational, business/marketing, educational, entertainment, advocacy, blog and personal. The presentation provides more information than this blog. If you are interested, just click the address above.

I felt that Mr. Kent's teaching was very interesting. I learned more about Internet & WWW after his class. I hope the next class will come soon, really looking forward to it.