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


w3.org/History.html

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


  • 1990/91: Berners-Lee creates the tools necessary for the Web to exist: HTTP, HTML, a web browser and a web server
  • 1992-95: Others start to adopt the Web
  • 1994: The W3C is formed, to allow companies to collaborate openly on web technologies and to encourage standards.

    The Web is made free for all to use without license

    • The First Web Site


    http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

    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


    https://air.mozilla.org/view-source-tuesday-am-session/#@6m38s

    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

    1. Set up your WordPress blog. (full instructions are on the course website)
    2. Read Tim Berners-Lee's "The World Wide Web: A Very Short Personal History"
      www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/ShortHistory.html
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