Week Four - 17th March

Using the WWW

Tutorial
During the tutorial we were instructed to have a look at the following sites that have attempted to appear authentic:

• Haggis Hunt
• Molossia

Four Clues that gave 'Haggis Hunt' away as a spoof:

1. It says in the 'haggisclopedia' that haggis is an animal when it is actually a traditional Scottish dish.


2. They have included alot of information that you can easily know is fake "Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poem “The Hunting Of The Snark” was originally called “The Hunting Of The Haggis” until he found out the Scottish beast actually existed"


3. The website has alot of un-related ads / advertising
   
4. It has made us words that they have used to describe the 'creature'
   

Screenshot of the website:

Four Clues that gave 'Molossia' away as a spoof:

1. You can tell that it's fake by the disclamer at the bottom of the website- "The Republic of Molossia bears no relation of any kind to the ancient Greek nation of the same name"


2. 'The president' meeting Kelly Clarkson and a man from the Star Trek Movies / the members of the government - all of them are the two same men


3. They have alot of information that you can tell is fake - their space exploration
   
4. They have the National Musical Instrument of Molossia, the Molossaphone which is infact a trumpet like object and a kazu.
   

Screenshot of the website:

We then had to visit the website http://martinlutherking.org/ and write down, before we looked at the actual website what we thought it'd be about. Before viewing the site I made these assumptions:

• That the website will be about Martin Luther King
• His 'I have a dream' speech / standing up for black people

I then visiteed the website and my first impressions of the of site were:

Screenshot of the website:

• The website wasn't what I had expected it to be
• It seemed dodgy and fake
• Alot of the content was untrue
• It had 'Rap Lyrics' on the website

I think that the website has alot of fake information - Martin Luther King didn't hate the white people, he was happy with who he was and he was going to fight for the rights of his community and the other black people. He didn't want to be white as the phrase "I'm not a negro tonight" suggested.

Lecture
During the lecture we learnt how to use the World Wide Web and the following key points:

• Internet vs Web
• Historical Perspective of the Web
• Defining the World Wide Web
• Web Protocols
• Web Browsers/Interface

Readings
Reading 1 - A brief History of the Internet
This reading explained some of the history of the internet, including it's origin, the initial internetting, concepts of ideas and much more that proved very interesting.

Reading 2- History of the World-Wide Web
This reading explained a comprehensive history of the web and search engines it was divided into chapters so it was easy to understand and to read through.