Week 4

What a change Web 2.0 has made, Tim Berners-Lee dream for a transition from one-to many to many-to-many seems to be enabled with RSS.  Although publishing on the Web was there before.  It was vaguely there but it was only availably to limited number such as of web designers.  With RSS now the public can join in, and connect to many, with sites like social networking.

Week 3

Tim Berners-Lee describes the Web 2.0 as “a piece of jargon”.  He describes the idea of Web was an interaction between people and really that’s what it is, as it was initially designed to be.

Berners-Lee initial use for the World Wibe Web was as a social tool.  As the World Wide Web has advanced this same principle still applies today, and if not stronger.

It still does what Vannevar Bush wanted to do in the beginning, in 1945 by recalling information up on a screen.  Ok you can recall information by a click of a mouse instead of going to the book shelf.  We also find information in a non-linear way, called hypertext.  The idea that hypertext came from mimicking a tree called the RHZONE is like what, another idea that came from nature, amazing.

Scott Laningham. 2006. Developer Works Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int082206txt.html (accessed December 15, 2010).

Week 2

What a scare I got with The Way Back Machine, at www.archive.org.  A website to view old websites, I quickly tried to find my old sailing photos.  To think, anything I put on the web will most likely be there forever.

What is the Internet?  Connections of information that are an abundance of hypertext links interlinking it all together.  The result is information at our finger tips, to grow faster, and make our own associate patterns.  Leading us to a more individual freedom away from the hierarchy systems.