When I saw the title of the course, 'Com 125: Intro to Internet', I snorted, thinking that in this IT-driven era, what else is there to teach about the internet? While I do not claim to be an expert on the subject, I figured that this was just an introduction course so it probably wouldn't cover anything I didnt already know from my 'long history' with the use of internet.
But the 1st lesson quickly proved me wrong. Terms which I had never heard in my entire internet-surfing history (which more than 10years), such as 'web 1.0', 'web 2.0' and so on, started sprouting up in class. That really piped my interest. I had never known that websites could be categorised in such a way.
An example of web2.0, in my understanding, would be online forums and (not forgetting) Wikipedia. This type of websites not only allow the user to share information with people everywhere, it also allows interaction between the person posting the information and the one who is reading it.
A more "advanced" version of the web2.0 would be web3.0, and one example of such a website would be the ever-famous Youtube which retains information about its user's favourites searches/ videos and then comes up with a list of related videos to recommend. As an avid Youtube-surfer, this feature comes in handy especially when I want to find(or discover) related videos quick.
A similar example would be Google, which quickly comes up with popular searches with each letter/number you type into its search box, hence aiding in the user's search.
(I wasn't searching for anything in particular, but when that came up, I just had to click it. ;) )
Yet another term that was introduced was the web4.0, which is basically an 'internet page of the future', possibly...becoming more user-friendly and more interactive? Seeing how important and useful the internet is as a platform for communication, I think it is really exciting to find out how else the internet can evolve to become in the future.
After the 1st lesson, I have to say that I am somewhat looking forward to the rest of the module, and learn more about the phenomenon that is the Internet. =]
Com 125, Class A =]