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Week 4. What is web 2.0?

An introduction to the web 2.0

Rethinking about the web and all it has to offer these days has changed significantly over the past 15 years. It has become evermore popular, user friendly and accesable to the public. With faster connection speeds, the web 2.0 and the wide use of social networking, communicating and infomation sharing empowers the user a lot more than the eairly days of the web 1.0. I would concider web 2.0 site as being youtube, facebook and other sites similar where the users can activly interact share and exchange infomation and create media.

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Week 3. What is the world wide web?

This week we take a look into the web, what exactly is the web and how is it used today.

The world wide web has been called the face of the internet, this means whenever we send an e-mail, use facebook or general surfing for infomation we are using the web. The web is a collection of all data and programs using a series of hypertext documents. These documents may be stored on servers all over the world and can be accesed by a few clicks on a hypertext link. When all of these pages and programs are linked through hypertext it formes a web which we are able to navigate our way around across the whole world and the infomation stored on it.
The most common form of this is through web browsers such as interner explorer, google chrome, and firefox to name a few. These programes display the web pages and are all linked together through the hypertext system. Most e-mails and video confrencing is done by the use of these platforms.

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Week 2. What is the internet?

This weeks topic,

We are to gather an understanding of the internet,

The internet is vast collection of interconnected computers that talk to one another through a series of network protocols. These connection between computers can be linked via telephone lines, cable and satelite links. Firstly,  a computer is connected to a modem or router, some are built into machines other modems are external. All of these are connected then to a server which would usually be within 7 killometers, from there all servers are then connected to each other which forms an internet. Therefore an internet is the underlying structure in which all machines are tied together.