World Wide Web Consortium

twentieth century. So much so that many could not bear the possibility of not having access to it at all times. The Internet has gone through three basic forms during it’s growth, it started as an idea, became a reality as ARPANET, and expanded to the world as the Internet that is known today. Johnny Ryan points out in his book A History of the Internet and the Digital Future that the Internet is the result of a desire for quick, international communication during the cold war. It was the idea…

Technology and Teachers Technology has become a revolutionary tool for education, by allowing the utilizing of information found on the World Wide Web. Teachers have adopted the digital age, by the use of various computer programs, and by incorporating the internet. Technology will never replace teacher, but “teachers who don’t use technology will be replaced by those who do”. (Trucano) Today teachers no longer only rely on the traditional methods of teaching, but now apply technology to their…

Firstly, the World Wide Web is not the Internet. The web is a feature of the internet, which is a network of computer networks whereas the World Wide Web is a series of interlinked HTML webpages connected by Hyperlinks. Therefore, “surfing” the Web and “surfing” the internet are two different things. Although the task of retrieving a webpage can be completed in a matter of seconds, it is actually a complex process. Firstly, your device sends a request to the Domain Name System through a router…

Smithsonian National Zoo and Animal Inside Out, are two amazing websites one can go on when inquiring to visit animal museums. I was interested to see all the bright colors on the page, a thought came to me. What do graphic designers think when creating a webpage? Questions like why they chose this particular image? Or why did they choose that font and color? Their goal is to make the webpage appealing to the eye, so people can come visit their museum. In this essay I would like to examine two…

Over the years, and especially the 20th century, technology has been rapidly growing and more and more people are on their phones or surfing the web. All of this technology makes researchers think that it might have an effect on the mental process, so many experiments were performed to see if this was true. Three of these experiments include the research and writings of Jim Taylor and Nicholas Carr. Jim Taylor, a Ph.D. and technology writer, wrote an article explaining his research on how…

poor service. BlueHost is one of the high-end web hosting tools that can be used and only costs about six dollars a month. It also offers free installation of tools used to help build websites, such as WordPress. Once BlueHost is downloaded, the next step is to learn how to use the site and customize it to the user’s…

Therefore, the concept of oneness has lost. The second is the corruption and fraud from which no one has immunity. Moreover, the other side of the coin is the over-powering of information and its abuse by nations that are masters and the rest would be slaves. Thus this would results in imbalance of access to natural and human resources, global-economy and will results in fragile Eco-system. Therefore, the modern communicative technology does not truly promote a cohesive Global Village concept in…

modern society. The two most powerful innovations from the Information age, the internet and the World Wide Web, have made tedious everyday tasks more efficient, opened up to new information and has made communicating worldwide easier. These innovations have tremendous impacts on social, cultural, economical and political advancements. Before the innovation of the internet in 1969 and World Wide Web in 1989 people had their own way…

Social Media And The Erosion Of Journalism Overtime, everything must evolve. From fashion trends, to the human understanding of the universe, the world is a never ending string of fluidly shifting events. Even the way information is created and consumed is relentlessly altering and adapting. In the digital age, journalist, the gatekeepers and protectors of public information, are hard to distinguish from the herds of bloggers, and the countless soap box preachers. Often, the lines between fact…

In what role does the Internet and technology play in daily lives around the world? If the Internet were taken away from us, how would people feel? Many humans would feel like an entire part of their life is missing, due to technology now being a necessity in everyday life (Walker 2). What exactly is the Internet? Is the Internet only what people use when they need to look up a piece of information? Sure it is, but it’s also much more complex. The Internet is a global network connecting millions…