Second Seminar: Technology Infrastructure: The Internet and The World Wide Web

In this seminar, we learnt the history and the trend of internet and www.
Topics covered are:
--The origin, growth, and current structure of the Internet
--How packet-switched networks are combinedto form the Internet
--How Internet protocols and Internetaddressing work
--The history and use of markup languages on the Web, including SGML, TML, and XML
--How HTML tags and links work on the WorldWide Web
--The differences among internets, intranets,and extranets
--Options for connecting to the Internet,including cost and bandwidth factors
--About Internet 2 and the Semantic Web

During the html lab, I tried to build a web page for the first time. It seemed really interesting to me. I will spend some time and learn more about the html.