What is the INTERNET

Cyberspace: termed by William Gibson in his fantasy novel Neuromancer.

Main Services on the Internet

• WWW Web Browser (MS Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Firefox ...): Software on your machine that works with the WWW. It organizes the WWW for you.
  • Tools transforming the binary data of the net into pictures, text, movies, and sound.
• E-mail
• Newsgroups

Why is it so big?

1. It works with global standards. One of the most important standards is the idea of a global identification of files. This is called the Unique Resource Location (URL).

Standardized components of an URL: http://www2.tltc.ttu.edu/Schneider/

http:// , usenet://

www2 , www

tltc.ttu

edu , gov, com, recently extensions like .name were added

/schneider

/

2. Sharing idea reduces redundancy

Computers that are linked to the INTERNET not only share their resources; by design they make their own resources available.

If I want to provide the FBI statistics on my homepage, I do not have to copy all the statistics to my computer account. It is sufficient if I link these data providing its URL.

3. The Hypertext principle

Direct access of an URL

• Get the URL from your syllabus: http://www2.tltc.ttu.edu/Schneider/
• Enter the cited html address
  • my trick: use the "Location" box
• beware: URLs can be case sensitive

Google

http://www.google.com/

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left upper corner: MORE

BOOKS

Masculinity after Traditionalism

YouTube

little project of my students in Paris: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJNJXBIk1Sk

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Disclaimer: The documents linked to other sources on the WWW, others than http://www2.tltc.ttu.edu/Schneider2/ and its subdirectories, do not necessarily express the views of Texas Tech University or Dr. Andreas Schneider. @Copyright 2008 Andreas Schneider