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Verse of the
Day
"Be still, and know that I
am God; I will be
exalted among the
nations, I will be exalted
in the earth."
- Psalm 46:10
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History
Business Uses
Important Legal Issues
HTML
Who Built the Internet?
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Bill Gates?
Al Gore?
Steve Jobs?
IBM?
Government?
God?
United State DOD
• Department of Defense
– Created ARPANet
• Advanced Research Projects Agency Network
– Late 1960’s into the 70’s
Why the Army?
• Benefits
– Troop control
– Shared intelligence
– Shared research
The Internet goes to College
• 1970’s – 1980’s
• Loads of research and development of
ARPANet
• Major Contributors
– UCLA
– Duke
– Stanford
– UC Santa Barbara
– Utah
Beginnings of Public Use
• X.25
– First to allow public access to businesses
• Who was the first company to offer e-mail
and chatting?
– AOL?
– Netscape?
– CompuServe?
– Prodigy?
TCP/IP…just a bunch of letters?
• Loosely defined internet
• Loads of networks
– No communication between
• Internet Protocol Suite
– Allows different networks to
‘talk’ to each other
• All computers connected to
the Net use this
Down to Business
• Commerce originally forbidden
• Universities did not want the ‘uneducated’
in their party
• Internet could not have survived without
business
• First dial-up service?
– World.std.com
• I kid you not
Why Commerce?
• Amazon.com
– Proved viability of the web
• Why is the internet an option for business?
Legality of the Net
• Censorship
– Free speech vs. Protection
• Copyright
– Property laws
– Digital Millennium Copyright
Act
Safety
• MySpace
• Facebook
• Blogs
– Keep private information
private
– Add only those you know
as friends
– No need for everyone to
know what you had for
lunch
Browsers
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Internet Explorer
Apple Safari
Mosaic
Opera
Netscape
Viewing the Web
• Made possible by Tim Berners-Lee
– Created HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
– System of code
• Berners-Lee never made any
money off of this development
– Allowed code to be ‘open-source’
World Wide Web Consortium
• Chaired by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT
• Makes upgrades and changes to HTML
• Helps set rules and protocol for internet
HTML
• Code that dictates how web pages are
viewed and accessed
• All other web codes are reliant on HTML
Ways to code
• Text editors
– Word
– Textpad
– Wordpad
• Web-based editors
– Basically same as text
• WYSIWYG
– What you see is what you get
Why learn code?
• Most WYSWYG editors add their own junk
• Must be able to make changes on the fly
• Easier to make any changes if you know
the language
WYSWYG Editors
• Microsoft FrontPage
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• Mozilla SeaMonkey