Learning Journal Entry 1
Yep, I was one of those people who didn’t understand the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web. I’m confident I used the terms interchangeably and in error. That point of confusion was quickly clarified in our first class, and Intro to Web Technology has continued to open up a world of information to me. Learning Module 1 helped ground me in the history of all the developments that created the digital world we live in today. The content of Module 1 also explained the logistics of the technology and will put things in context as I learn more in future modules about current technologies and how to use them.
Learning that the Internet’s origins were with the U.S. Department of Defense and the ARPANET shed light on what motivated visionaries went to work to create something that was even more revolutionary than they could have imagined. For my small group presentation, I delved into the stories of two of these visionaries – Tim Berners-Lee and Marc Andreessen. Tim Berners-Lee is the computer scientist who created the World Wide Web, and Marc Andreessen was a software engineer who had the ingenuity to co-create a web browser (Mosaic) that was more intuitive to use the first widely used web browser (Mosaic) that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet.
Highlighted below are four terms and concepts that I learned during Module 1:
Key Terms/Definitions:
- Packet Switching-
- ISOC-
- W3C---
- ARPANET- With the definitions
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