Can you live without WWW? I am sure to answer 'NO'.
Everybody knows about WWW. If I ask you whether you know about www, you probablely say 'yes', but again asking you to explain what it is? Would you be able to do that? Yes, it is a tough question. Looking up the word in a dictionary, it says the World Wide Web is a computer system which links a documents and pictures and pictures into a database that is stored in computors in many different parts of the world and that people everywhere can use. The abbreviations WWW and Web are often used.
As Dr.Yoon says, The WWW is a collaboratively authored hypertext and a standard. Also it is a vast, heterogeneous - means something (an object or system) consists of a diverse range of different items- network of people and machines. Assume that someone wrote a little in a paper and turns to the next person, and then he read it and wrote a little as well, and so on. This concept is collaboratively authered text. Also because of using a computer language HTML, it can be a standard.
And do you know who wrote the www standards? There is a national institutes called ISO-
international standards organization-. People who belong to the ISO create the standards in many fields. Actually they have created over 12,000 standards. The amazing(?) thing is that how much do you think they pay even to join to there? People who want to join pay $63,500 a year to get a full membership. That's a big money i think, but it would be worthy to them, not to me.
Next question, which one do you think is first, a baby's name or birth of the baby? Someone may already decide his or her baby's name before the baby is born. The other hands, when a baby is born, their mother and father give him a name. In the same way, not only people make media, but also media make people. This is kinds of funny thing, but it is true. This all things I learned this week was fun and interesting. Lovely week 4. Thank you for the lectures, Yoon. ^^
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Super-super genius Engelbart.
Can you imagine how well Engelbart smart is? He is a real genius, i think. In the 1960s there was nothing, i mean no mouse, no moniter, there was just standard computer i/o such as hollerith cards and paper printouts. But, he imagined some concepts like
•the mouse
•2d display editing
•hypermedia & hypermedia email
•outline processing •multiple window displays
and he even made a demo given to 1000 at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco with computers and support staff. Here some pictures of what he Invented.
I am still wondering how he could've thought those things, even thought he used Bush's premise. It became the orgin of the personal computer, and made a great effect in the computer technology.
A topic for his speech in the demo, he needed to find some supporter. so you could find his speech speculative and reporting style. when i saw it, i wished to have the same one like his.
Good. i'd like to talk about hypertext a little bit more. What do you think about hyper, and then
hypertext? Hyper means actually, as we know, form adjectves that describe something a little above the surface. then, Hypertext means, should be something on the letters of moniter? i hope we all agree that hypertext is a way of connecting pieces of text so that you can go quickly and directly from one to another. Dr.Yoon also said that one way that digital media has been understood as a new forms of writting, reading and thinking.
This lecture was a little hard for me to all understand that, because some ideas of this lecture was difficult and the class was a little speedy. but i like this class. Always fun.
thank you.^^
•the mouse
•2d display editing
•hypermedia & hypermedia email
•outline processing •multiple window displays
and he even made a demo given to 1000 at the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco with computers and support staff. Here some pictures of what he Invented.
I am still wondering how he could've thought those things, even thought he used Bush's premise. It became the orgin of the personal computer, and made a great effect in the computer technology.
A topic for his speech in the demo, he needed to find some supporter. so you could find his speech speculative and reporting style. when i saw it, i wished to have the same one like his.
Good. i'd like to talk about hypertext a little bit more. What do you think about hyper, and then
hypertext? Hyper means actually, as we know, form adjectves that describe something a little above the surface. then, Hypertext means, should be something on the letters of moniter? i hope we all agree that hypertext is a way of connecting pieces of text so that you can go quickly and directly from one to another. Dr.Yoon also said that one way that digital media has been understood as a new forms of writting, reading and thinking.
This lecture was a little hard for me to all understand that, because some ideas of this lecture was difficult and the class was a little speedy. but i like this class. Always fun.
thank you.^^
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Wow! the first class of info-technology
i always feel excited when i do something new. As always, i got a big excitement in the first class of info-technology. the professor is dr. Joonsung Yoon. He is a nice Guy, i guess. His hair stlye got my attention and it seemed to me cool. i wanted to have the same one. just kidding.^^
In the first class, i learned about the key point - Media and Embody-. Then, what is media?
The professor said that digital media technologies connect or separate people, they become media. Yes, i agree that. Media could be everything that we can comunicate through. The second one, what is Embody? in the other expression, it means 'to include'. He used the expression that
Technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships. Here the funny thing is, do you know how artists in the middle ages used the natual colors to paint in the wall? they used white eggs as a medium. Is that interesting?
In the same way, is a car a medium?
we had lots of discusston about it, regarding connect or separate. and I answered that it could be like a death and alive. Our class is reactive and fun.
And second class this week, before the class, we had to read the aticle 'As We May Think' written by Vannevar Bush. That was the reading assignment of the first class. Ew, that was very long, over 10 pages. even there were too many words that i don't know. to be honest, the artcle was too hard for me to understand whole contents. But what the article is saying about is that Bush, MIT professor, invented differential analyzer which is designed for storing information and searching it quickly. when he had an idea of that machine, he wished that the machine could be used as one method to... He also thought the method at that time was not satisfying to keep pace with thinking speed. anyways, that was a big invention. i wonder how Bush could thought that concept at those time? He must've been a genius.^^
I like this class. It's fun and active, eventhough i have a bad english. But i am sure my english will be better when this semester ends, because I like this class.^^
thank you and see you guys.
In the first class, i learned about the key point - Media and Embody-. Then, what is media?
The professor said that digital media technologies connect or separate people, they become media. Yes, i agree that. Media could be everything that we can comunicate through. The second one, what is Embody? in the other expression, it means 'to include'. He used the expression that
Technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic and philosophical ideas and relationships. Here the funny thing is, do you know how artists in the middle ages used the natual colors to paint in the wall? they used white eggs as a medium. Is that interesting?
In the same way, is a car a medium?
we had lots of discusston about it, regarding connect or separate. and I answered that it could be like a death and alive. Our class is reactive and fun.
And second class this week, before the class, we had to read the aticle 'As We May Think' written by Vannevar Bush. That was the reading assignment of the first class. Ew, that was very long, over 10 pages. even there were too many words that i don't know. to be honest, the artcle was too hard for me to understand whole contents. But what the article is saying about is that Bush, MIT professor, invented differential analyzer which is designed for storing information and searching it quickly. when he had an idea of that machine, he wished that the machine could be used as one method to... He also thought the method at that time was not satisfying to keep pace with thinking speed. anyways, that was a big invention. i wonder how Bush could thought that concept at those time? He must've been a genius.^^
I like this class. It's fun and active, eventhough i have a bad english. But i am sure my english will be better when this semester ends, because I like this class.^^
thank you and see you guys.
Friday, March 7, 2008
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