Week 4: Using the WWW

Lecture summary
This lecture was about using the World Wide Web. Who developed it and when it was developed and what tools you will need o access the internet.

Tutorial summary

In the tutorial we visited three websites and had to evaluate their authenticity and reliability. We had to give clues to prove that the site is a spoof. (a site not to be taken seriously)

Tutorial Task
In week 4 we visited 3 websites
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.molossia.org/
http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/

First we went to haggishunt website.

We had to evaluate the site and give 4 clues as to why this site is a spoof!! ( a website that is not designed to be serious, as in its a joke)
First clue is that the animal (haggis) does not exist
Second, In the haggisclopedia there is a drink recipe in which the haggis is one of the ingredients
Third, in the shop you can't buy anything
Fourth, Commercial site and links do not work
Fifth, the animal is drawn, there are no real photos of the animal

On the http://www.molossia.org/ site

On the site there is a Shop link, in the bank it has the currency details. The currency is cookie dough
At the start there is a teachers login, it says that the site is fake
If you search it on a web browser, you see that that country does not exist.
Presentation is not good.
Then we went to the Martin Luther King website on http://www.martinlutherking.org/

What I would except to find before I entered the site:

I expected that there would be information about Martin Luther King, since it has an .org at the end, it would be a organisation.

[The site keeps changing my font size

My impressions of the website:

It has links to rap lyrics and black invention myths. The website is a spoof because of the links mentioned.

Readings:

A brief history of the internet

This site provides the reader with a detailed history of the internet.

History of the world wide web

This site gives a more in-dept history of the internet under the five headings. “The Development of Computers till 1960's”, “From ARPANET to World Wide Web”, “History of Electronic Mail”, “Search Engines” and “Basic Net Data”.