Hello!
How are you? Here is another short video to go with your reading about the beginning of the World Wide Web, with a focus on Tim Berners-Lee, who created it. The picture at the top is Tim Berners-Lee giving a speech.
Activity/homework
Watch the video below. Watch it as many times as you want or need. This is very important for greater understanding of how the World Wide Web got started.
If you have trouble watching it here, go to this link, or look for "Tim Berners-Lee ~ The World Wide Web" on YouTube at this URL: https://youtu.be/j4cN_q3NX9c
Special note: If you go to the YouTube link, you can turn on Japanese subtitles (日本語字幕) if you need them. They are direct translations (直接翻訳), so they are not perfect - but they can help you follow the video if you need help.
As you watch, answer the questions and go through the responses below the video in your notebooks.
Special note: If you go to the YouTube link, you can turn on Japanese subtitles (日本語字幕) if you need them. They are direct translations (直接翻訳), so they are not perfect - but they can help you follow the video if you need help.
As you watch, answer the questions and go through the responses below the video in your notebooks.
Questions & responses:
1. What is the word for how texts are linked together?
2. When Berners-Lee was a student at Oxford University, what did he use to build his own computer?
3. What kind of work did he do after he graduated from university?
4. Explain, in your own words, what Paul Baran's idea of a computer network was.
5. Which locations in the U.S. formed the first computer network?
6. As the computer network got bigger, explain in your own words the major problem it had.
7. What does HTML make possible?
8. What does each part of a URL address mean?
9. What did Marc Andreesen invent?
10. Explain, in your own words, what Andreesen's development made possible.
I hope you find this, and the video on the other blogpost, interesting!
1. What is the word for how texts are linked together?
2. When Berners-Lee was a student at Oxford University, what did he use to build his own computer?
3. What kind of work did he do after he graduated from university?
4. Explain, in your own words, what Paul Baran's idea of a computer network was.
5. Which locations in the U.S. formed the first computer network?
6. As the computer network got bigger, explain in your own words the major problem it had.
7. What does HTML make possible?
8. What does each part of a URL address mean?
9. What did Marc Andreesen invent?
10. Explain, in your own words, what Andreesen's development made possible.
I hope you find this, and the video on the other blogpost, interesting!
See you next class!
Image: By John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, photo by Scott Henrichsen - Sir Tim Berners-Lee talking about the Web at the Newseum, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5869846
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