Chapter 7
August 5, 2009
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better, along comes chapter 7 dealing with everything related to the Internet, a personal favorite topic. The internet, defined as a collection of interconnected individual networks, in my opinion, is the single greatest advancement in the sharing of knowledge. Beyond a simple definition of the internet, we also learned about how we are able to connect to the internet, through DSL of Cable modem lines that connect the user to internet service providers which then provide the access to the open networks of the internet. Other aspects of the Internet that we learned about all revolved around the same idea, communication. We discussed the benefits of using email, instant messaging, video conferencing, listserv and File Transfer Protocol. All of these different tools, each are a different way to communicate or share information across the Internet. Lastly we discussed the World Wide Web, and web pages, along with the browser that reads the pages on the web. We learned in brief, that the World Wide Web is the visual interpretation of the internet and actually is the aspect of the net that houses the content we so eagerly seek.