LIS520 Janes
The Web, Structure and
History
a bit of history
History of the Internet vimeo.com
What
the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years Eric Schmidt via readwriteweb
18
Interesting Firsts on the Internet techreaders.com
Prophecies of
the Internet, 1971 boingboing 3/31/11
Anderson
& Wolff, “The
Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet”
Wired September 2010
Bush, Vannevar, “As We May Think” Atlantic Monthly 176 (1), 101-108.
Happy
20th Birthday, World Wide Web! cnet
8/6/11
Why
did the Web happen?
How
would you explain packet switching to someone unfamiliar with it, but who uses
the Internet?
How
close was Bush’s vision to what we now think of as the Web?
What
are the implications of the trends outlined in the Anderson & Wolff article
for the traditional library/information world?
Do you believe Schmidt’s predictions to be valid?
Do
you find those trends to be intuitive?
structure
of Web documents
The Structure of HTML
Documents (Web Developer’s Virtual Library)
Creating Web Documents (december.com)
What is XML? (HTMLGoodies.com)
Getting Started with
XML (Eric Lease Morgan)
HTML
tags describe logical components of
documents (titles, headings, paragraphs, etc.).
What other kinds of logical components could you imagine implementing as
tags?
mechanics
of search engines
How Internet
Search Engines Work (How Stuff Works)
The Anatomy of a Search
Engine (article by Brin & Page delivered at 7th
Int’l Web Conference, describing technical features of Google before it was
Google)
How Google Works (the graphical version)
SEO
101 (Search Engine Watch)
What
happens, behind the scenes, when you type a query into Google?
some
other interesting or fun things
The Internet of Things
IBM via YouTube
How Much Information
(2000) 2003
version (School of Information Management & Systems, UC Berkeley)
Choosing
Quick Hits Over the Card Catalog New
York Times 8/10/00