Reflection 1

Things I have learned in this course

I have learned so many things through this course. First of all, my researching skills have improved. Since this course is related to searching, I get the opportunity to know about many searching engines and how to use it from Google and Yahoo to search for information inside some books. What is so interesting but difficult at the same time is doing the references. There are so many ways to do the reference : APA, MLA, etc and each one of them has special steps that a person needs to follow in order to get the reference right; I have used the APA style in my papers. In addition to that, doing research about certain topics that the instructors assign allows me sometimes to discover and know about new information that I did not know before. This is something good because I get to new knowledge that may help me later on in either my academic or real life. All in all, I cannot but say that this course has been very beneficial to me as a student because it will help to know how to do research in other courses.

World Wide Web

Introduction

World Wide Web is an information medium through which the users can write and read via computers which are connected with internet. It is a system of interlinked formatted document that is supported by the various internet servers. HTML is a markup language in which the documents are formatted. These documents are linked with other documents, graphics, video and audio files. Now by clicking on the hot spots you can move from one document to another. Web browser is an application through which the accessing of the World Wide Web gets easier. The two most popular web browsers are Microsoft’s internet explore and Mozilla Firefox. (World Wide Web)

History about World Wide Web

Tim Berners Lee in 1980 built ENQIRE which was a personal database of software models and people. In EQUIRE each page is interlinked with an existing page. In 1990, he had built all tools which were necessary for the working web. Some of the tools were hyper text markup language (HTML) indices, hyper text transfer protocol 0.9, HTTP server software, web server, web browser and web pages. In 1991, he posted short summary on alt.hypertext newsgroup about World Wide Web. The first graphical browser was Mosaic web browser which was developed by a team at the University of Illinois in 1993. The concept of dot- com was introduced in year 1999. Web 2.0 was the first model that introduced the concept of information exchanging and sharing in the beginning of 2002. You tube is a video viewing website developed by three employees of PayPal.   (History of world wide web)

Uses of the World Wide Web

World Wide Web has brought a drastic change in the field of education. Both students and teachers search the web for different information. It helps them to know about recently released technologies. The web is also used for on line shopping and people can search for the new products. Now a days, many banks provide the service of online banking across the country. By this facility a person can transfer the money from any place. The web is used for playing online games and for listening to music. (Uses of world wide web)

Impact of web on the engineering student

The growth of the web has changed the way of learning of the students. Engineering educators use the web as a tool for the presentation of both supplemental and basic materials for the instruction process. On the web, the wide range of matter is available for the engineering students. It helps them by searching on the internet. Many students use the internet for presenting their assignments and engineering designs. The nonlinear and graphical patterns of the web provide many new ways of organizing and presenting the data. Students are able to know about different new technologies and their uses. 

Conclusion

In the last few years the use of the World Wide Web has increased drastically. Nowadays, the World Wide Web is used in each and every field. It helps the students in searching particular data. The people can make their own database on the internet. Web also provides the facility of online shopping. But the negative effect of  the web is the student becomes addicted. The web does not provide the security for your data. So the web has both positive aspects and negative aspects.

References

World Wide Web.  (2007). Retrieved January 30, 2011, from

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/worldweb.htm

History of World Wide Web. (2010). Retrieved January 30, 2011, from

http://www.hinduwebsite.com/webresources/articles/historyofwww.asp

Uses of World Wide Web. (2010). Retrieved January 30, 2011, from

http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/global/naaee.htm