Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Blog Assignment 2-History of the Internet/Web
The idea of the internet was conceived by a MIT professor by the name of J.C.R. Licklider in the early 1960's. He dreamed of a world where people could share information instantly with computers in scientific labs, and on the military field. Licklinder left MIT for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1962 to work on his idea. In 1965 Leonard Kleinrock of MIT developed the theory of packet switching which would be the basis of all internet connections in the future. That same year, Lawrence Roberts connected a Massachusetts computer to a California computer over dial up through phone lines. This proved that long distance connections were possible, and that telephone lines couldn't handle the information, which confirmed Kleinrocks theory of "packet switching." Most people use the terms internet and web interchangeably, when in actuality they are separate. The internet is a series of connected computers that exchange information, the web is a series of connected websites within the internet. The process of the web is fairly simple. In order for the web to work you need a local computer (the one your using) and remote computer, or server(located somewhere else.) When you type in a website in a internet browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) your local computer asks the remote or server computer for the webpage content, which is then sent from the remote computer back to the local computer to be displayed on the screen.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Blog Assignment 1-Goals and Fears
Coming into this Web Design 1 class I didn't know how to feel. I have never dealt with designing websites, and have never dabbled in the art of writing HTML. As a Graphic Design major I didn't expect to have to learn how to create websites, but as time progresses I'm beginning to understand just how important the web has become. Their are many tools that the web possesses that are, and will be, beneficial to my career in the future. Facebook alone is one of the major tools for graphic designers in the future. On Facebook you can create a page specifically for your freelance company, showing what you offer and displaying some past work you created for clients. With the rise in web sites and personal blogs you can use Google Reader to subscribe, via RSS, to the these sites and blogs and instantly know what's going on in the design world. I have a friend who works as a independent Graphic Designer who possesses his own website for his business, but also uses Facebook for his business, which has generated numerous job opportunities for him. For this Web Design 1 class I would like to know the basics of writing HTML, and the basics of JAVA and interactive areas of web design.
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