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Infocomm Study Project!

Learning Points

What's up everyone and welecome to my blog and today, I'm showing what are some important and useful knowle I had learned in my Infocomm lessons. Here are ten main points

First the basics: the history of the ~~Word Wide Web(WWW for short)~~ and the inventor plus who introduced the WWW to the world(Not WWE:))
Next, the evolution of the internet through the years such as the number of users which multipled rapidly throuth only 2 decades, from 16 million users in 1995 to 2405 users in 2012!!!, and also the major evolution from 1.0 to the much more amazing 2.0- this break through meant a lot and is a new milestone for the modern web users
Just a fun fact: 1/3 of the world population are web surfers[and not subway surfers...]! ~~That's 1 in every 3 of us!~~ OMG!
Thirdly, the specific terms and their meanings such as thumbnail, a domain name, URL which stands for Uniform Resource Locater, and also IP adress plus ISP and OSP which are actually ways to access the internet!
Also the definition of web browser and examples of them such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer which are the most common
How does data travel through the Internet: through an cable modem or a wifi-network?
useful information such as why links are important, the usage of subject directory, a search tool and what is called a hit
The 9 types of basic websites which includes portal, news, informational, business/marketing, educational, entertainment, advocacy, blog and personal plus their definitions and differences
The guidelines to evaluate the value of a web site such as affiliation, audience, authority, content, currency, design and objectivity. Personally, content and currency are the most important as we gather information from them
And multimedia which integrates text with other media elements such as animation, virtual reality which is a real or imagined environment simulated by computers, animation, audio and video plus graphic formats used on the web
Streaming audio and other stuff which differs from downloading; plug-ins and web publishing which has improved dramatically since the arrival of web2.0 Yahoo!