My First Internet Lesson: The internet & WWW

Hi! My name is Chia Hou Yi, as mentioned in my profile. Yesterday was my first IS lesson. Our teacher was Mr. Kent Cheong. He introduced himself and then let us see the webpage( http://webnewmedia.ning.com/ ) and let us learn some things related to Internet.

There was a 57 page presentation, in TheInternetandWWW webpage. During that slideshow, I learnt a few Internet vocabs and acronyms such as URL: Uniform Resource Locator, ISP: Internet Service Provider, FTP: File Transfer Protocol etc. It gaves us a slight brief of the Internet's history, and I was very shocked to find out only four host nodes in 1969. (Seriously, not shocked as my mouth has dropped off), but it was fine because technology was not so advanced in those days. The internet was used by scincetists to communicate faster. And later on, it was used by other users all over the world. And since, the users of internet are growing.

Our teacher also let us see a video at youtube, that in every minute, technology tends to grow and grow. In the video, it said that estimated in 2013, they were to invent such computer better that the human brain. So, he said that as technology grows so fast, that if we do not catch up, we would not be as modern.

During this lesson, I felt that I love his teachings, and I learned more things about the internet. Before that, I learn to use the internet by myself. From this lesson, as time was not enough, he just show us the slideshows (as mentioned above) in a quick speed, so some points could not be explained clearly. But in the slideshow, the summary was The History and Sturcture of the internet, The world wide web, Web Publishing, Electronic Commerce, Other Internet Services and Netiquette. I look forward to the next lesson, and hope that I would learn more from this IS programme.