The Introduction in Brief

A overview of the internet and all the vast potentials of it were given in todays lecture including a 'history' as it were of how the world wide web was formed, and the primary differences between the internet and the www. The Wiki was also set up. I'm still rather confused about the concept of a wiki, and was exceptionally surprised to discover that the general public could infact edit Wikipedia, (thus confirming that I will no longer be using this as an academic source in any future bibliographies!). I am sure however that through the group formation (as well as trial and error), things will no doubt become clearer (almost like setting up a myspace, and discovering how to insert a slideshow!).

In short today the following was covered:

• Distinguished main differences between World Wide Web, and Internet (www. pages and the actual internet), and identified 'http' protocols, ictp & how the information is thus disseminated.
  
  http://info.cern.ch/: CERN-the world's first-ever web server- Tim Berners Lee
  http://public.web.cern.ch/Public/Content/Chapters/AboutCERN/Achievements/WorldWideWeb/WWW-en.html- Explination into how www actually works.

• Internet dates back as to mid seventies and deals with the transfere of information, whereas the first www. page was formed in 1991.

• Formed blog and Wiki
  
  NB: sound files take up a great deal of space, thus to be taken into consideration once groups are formed and wiki starts to take shape.
  
  http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/