Week 2: What is the Internet?

Hello again!

This week in WEB101 we were looking at the topic "What is the Internet?".

The video by Melih Belgil (viewable here) was an interesting way of displaying what the Internet is. Rather engaging and informative. The rest of the reading and the other video weren't quite so attention-keeping, but was still a good read.

Also, this week, we were set two activities to complete. The first was called "Routing in Action" which showed the route our internet data takes to get to the server that hosts the specified website anywhere in the world. The website for those interested is you get signal. We were asked to find (using you get signal) the geographical locations of wikipedia.org, amazon.com and flickr.com. Below is a sample result from one of those route traces: 

Proxy trace to
flickr.com
21 hops / 24.7 seconds

1. Unknown

2. telstra.net

3. telstra.net

4. telstra.net

5. telstra.net

6. telstra.net

7. reach.com

8. reach.com

9. comcast.net

10. comcast.net

11. dreamhost.com

12. dreamhost.com

13. dreamhost.com

14. comcast.net

15. as6453.net

16. as6453.net

17. as6453.net

18. as6453.net

19. yahoo.com

20. yahoo.com

21. yahoo.com

~22,293 miles traveled

End location: yahoo.com, Sunnyvale, California

The second task for the week was "Who Owns What?" in which we had to look up big name websites and see who actually owned the Domain Name. Results from a search performed at this website below:

flickr.com
    - Owned by Yahoo! Inc.
youtube.com
    - Owned by Google Inc.
mickey.com
    - Admin Name: Disney Enterprises, Inc.

gooogle.com
    - Owned by Google Inc.
yaho.com
    - Owned by Yahoo! Inc.

Who owns these domain names? Why do you think this is?Google and Yahoo! own these domains to prevent other people from using similar names to gain visitors to their websites. Also, they use these sites to link directly to their main sites incase someone types the correct name of their website incorrectly.

That about wraps it up!

Joel

Week 1: What's in a Name?

Morning everyone!

So this is my first post to a blog - ever! Let's see how I do...

The first week of WEB101 proceeded without any hiccups. We were shown a tool called 'namechk' which allows you to check if your desired username is available or taken on quite a number of websites.

I created a number of accounts under the alias of 'wh1spr' on websites such as this one (Blogger / Blogspot), WordPress, Delicious, Flickr, FriendFeed, Twitter and LinkedIn. Hopefully we will use them all throughout the unit!


I'm looking forward to WEB101. It has been quite interesting so far!

Bye for now,

Joel

P.S. - What I've written here is also written on my WordPress account. I am keeping a double record to see which I prefer to use and the differences between each one. Sorry if you've read the other and are now reading this one!