The Internet and the World Wide Web

Lucy Duke

FMX

Blog Essay


Internet / World Wide Web 

What, When, Why: The Internet

To put such a large idea into such simple words seems crazy, but in short, the Internet is defined as a worldwide system of computer networks. The creation of the internet can be accredited to 2 computer scientists, Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn on January 1st, 1983. The Internet today can be used for anything, seemingly. It hosts hubs of all sorts, whether it be for shopping, doing homework, reading the news, or watching TV,  the internet can provide it all and more. This shows a crazy development due to the fact that the original purpose of the internet was simply for government researchers to share information. 


What, When, Why: The World Wide Web

Opened for public use in April of 1993, the World Wide Web was originally developed for a smaller use in 1989. It was created for automated sharing of information between scientists and universities across the globe. Tim Berners- Lee is the father of the World Wide Web, and his original creation has since snowballed into an application that the common man uses every day. The WWW is now used today for anyone to obtain any information they wish to know. 


Comparisons and Differences

The Internet and the World Wide Web can almost be looked at as one looks at a square and a rhombus. The World Wide Web needs the platform that the Internet provides, yet the Internet has multiple hubs just like the WWW. Simply, the World Wide Web is just one place to share and gather information, out of the several that the Internet supports. 



•  A Deeper Look at Websites

The first website was also created by Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the internet. He developed the internet within his work with CERN, which is also the name of the website. You can still access this website today, and the website now contains the history of the internet as well. 

://info.cern.ch


Sources: 

https://www.techtarget.com

https://www.britannica.com › Demystified › Technology

https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web

https://www.businessinsider.com/flashback-this-is-what-the-first-website-ever-looked-like-2011-6#:~:text=The%20first%20web%20page%20went,%2FWWW%2FTheProject.html.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
 Letter to Future Self Calligram  The original letter to myself: Future Lucy, Seeing as you truly have started to get your act together, I’m hoping this letter (from your own self) finds you well. I hope you yourself (myself) are well. The year I am writing this is 2023, we just turned 20. They say that your twenties are supposed to be the best years of your life. The latter half of your teenage years weren't great and it took a long time to realize that I was partially at fault for that. It was kind of hard to realize that I just wasn’t prioritizing YOU! You being my future self. I hope I still take the life changing quotes I read to heart, because a few weeks ago I read, “How you spend your days is how you live your life”. It’s hard to realize that these next 10 years are actually just an accumulation of several singular days. And while I could be doing better, I’m trying my best right now to make these days count, so I can look back when I read this letter and not regret
Read more
Image
  Self Portrait Propaganda Poster   For my self-portrait propaganda, this is the original selfie that I used:   The final poster turned out pretty well: My poster follows the “punk” vibe that we were shown examples of in class. I drew inspiration for the checkered background from looking at similar style posters. I also included a faded “shadow” of my original vector in the background that is my take on the following images use multiple images of one subject: I chose the quote “Loose lips sink ships” because my poster is still supposed to be a version of propaganda. This saying was popular in war times as to promote keeping secrets so that the enemy would not be aware of any plans made in regards to military, location, etc. Since my name is Lucy, my nickname is Luce which is pronounced the same way as “loose”, hence why I chose this quote. It is not necessarily satire, more so a play-on-words.
Read more

Post Card

Image
For our recent project, we were assigned in designing a post card. I chose a place that is near and dear to my heart: my local beach town, Saint George Island. I grew up going to this beach and one of my childhood best friends' grandparents own some real estate on the island. Her grandmother used to show us old photos of the island before it grew, and one aspect has truly stayed the same since then: the lighthouse. You can tour the light house any time you want when you visit and it is smack dab in the middle of the island. I chose to use an image of the light house due to how iconic it is.  For design, I went for simple because SGI is a very simple place. It's small and relaxed so I did a relaxed and "low maintenance" design. For the back, I also kept it simple. I made sure to include the "signing" lines that are very postcard-y.  I also included the abbreviation "SGI" because that is what the locals call it, and I think it added a nice touch.
Read more