DMD1070
Fundamentals of Web Design
I'll Be Your Host
Course Overview
Let's look at the syllabus
Student info Form
Roads?
Where W'ere Going, we don't Need Roads
a trip through the the web's past
1996
(don't worry, I'm not cruel enough to play the whole thing)
A Typical Website In 1996
1996 ADobe.com
1996 Amazon.com
1996 Wall Street Journal
2006
Adobe 2006
Amazon 2006
Wall Street Journal 2006
List of websites founded before 1995
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_before_1995
Yup, this a real Wikipedia article.
Activity 1: The WayBack Machine
A Brief
History of
the Web
A Modern Invention
- 1960s: Base technologies invented as part of a US military project called ARPANET
- 1980s: Englishman Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist at CERN, starts playing around with key concepts such as hypertext and links.
BERNERS-LEE CREATES THE WWW
1994: The W3C is formed, to allow companies to collaborate openly on web technologies and to encourage standards.
The First Web Site
The World Goes Crazy for the WWW
- 1996-98: The WWW really catches on, with mass public availability. All companies have to have a website
- 1999-2001: The dot com boom (and crash)
- 2002-now: Web is everywhere. Everyone uses it, social networking, e-commerce, all public services available online, etc. etc. etc.
An Animated History of the WWW
Paul Ford: the WEb Today
Activity 2: Life Without the Web
So, How Does
This Web
Thing Work?
Opening a Web Page requires...
- The client
- The server
- An Internet connection
- TCP/IP
- HTTP
- DNS
- HTML (CSS & JavaScript)
- Assets
Activity 3: A Game of Client/Server
THE OPEN WEB
the web is designed to be open and adaptable by anyone
View > Source
a personal history
ACTIVITY 4
VIEWING THE WEB THROUGH X-RAY GOGGLEs
Assignments For NExt Class
- Set up your WordPress blog. (full instructions are on the course website)
- Read Tim Berners-Lee's "The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History"
www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html
DMD 1070 Lesson 1
By ascott1
