The World Wide
Web is what it sounds like…it is a giant web, like a spider web, connecting
knowledge and ideas from all over the world. The two components work in what I
believe is a give-and-take system. The client—or user—gives input and the file
servers retrieve the stored data. This seems like such a basic representation
of the complexities of the web.
I understand
that the web is made up of linked ideas taking you from one to the next, a
concept that is anything but new in the age of technology. The reading takes
you as far back as 1000 B.C. to give an example of how people have been
connecting ideas, and having stories that branch off into other stories.
The web has
evolved into a magnificent form of communication. It allows people from around
the world to access information and ideas from anywhere. It has really allowed
for the expansion of knowledge and academics because it allowed for the specialization
that Herbert George Wells feared would tear society apart.
Is the www/Internet tearing society apart in certain ways...and reforming them in others?
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