Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The World-Wide Web response
I found this article very interesting because it gives us a time capsule back to the mid 1990's, when the internet was just beginning to gain popularity. Reading about the world-wide web when it was just becoming a useful tool to share information from different locations makes me realize how far we have come since the birth of the internet, as well as how much I take the world wide web for granted. My favorite part of the article was in the conclusion when the author discusses the potential improvements in the future for the web, "The web does not yet meet it's design goal as being a pool of knowledge that is as easy to update as to read"(797). In todays world, updating information on the web has become so easy, that most users of the internet update information using social media or blogs. It's fascinating to see how far we have come in the area of the world-wide web since this article was written.
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Hello! I completely agree with your entire response! I think this article was a written version of back to the future when I was reading it if that makes sense. It did an excellent step by step explanation of how W3 works from a technical perspective. I like the quote you used to describe their future predictions for it. And to think now, how it is used far exceeded their imaginations. I definitely think we all take it for granted especially the younger generations. I learned a lot from this post but the two things that stuck out to me were URIs and what "/" and "?" mean in the links. Great job on this post!
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