First Lesson

This is my blog for my infocom studies (IS) lessons. On Thursday, we, class 103, had our first IS lesson. We started off by watching a video, "Did You Know?", on youtube. Then, we learn more about the internet

Actually, every website has an IP address, which is a number code that leads you to the specific website. Example, Youtube has a IP address too, but for it to be easier for the people to remember a specific website, a URL is used. An example of a URL is "www.youtube.com".Imagine typing numbers to access a website!

In the past, computers connect to the internet through a standard telephone line, which was called dial up. So don't take for granted the high speed internet connection you have at home and get all fussed up just because it lags a bit.

Lastly, we learnt about web 1.0 and web 2.0. They are terms that you cannot find in the dictionary. Web 1.0 is updated by the webmaster, which make his job tedious, but web 2.0 is updated by several people, both the webmaster and its users. An example of a web 2.0 is Wikipedia. Web 2.0 also have a wider range of information as compared to web 1.0, as the information in web 1.0 is limited by the webmaster's knowledge, unlike web 2.0 which gets information from all the different users with different knowledge and points of view.

I think that IS is an interesting subject, and would continue to interest me throughout. I learnt a lot from this lesson, like a website's IP address, web 1.0 and web 2.0. I hope to learn much more things like HTML and c++.