Web: Programing & Metrics

Side note: As I was reading the programing of the world wide web the one thing that stood out to me was that if you know the IP address then you can type it into the browser bar to get the website.  I actually had to test that out and thought it was cool that it actually worked.

The start of the article covered the history behind the internet and IP address. The article covered the internet started in a lab in the sixties and was not created by Al Gore. The first net was ARPAnet that was created by the department of defense and was replaced twenty years later by NSFnet. As for the IP address part is that it is a 32 bit number that is assigned to different computers. The rest of the article went on to talk about domain names and how they started out as being an easier way to remember how to get to a website. Rest of the article talks about HTTP and HTML.

The second article Web metrics: Size and number of resources, talked about loading websites. What I found the most interesting part about the web metrics is what appears in the highlights portion. The thing that stood the most out to me was that the average web takes about 320 Kb to transfer the data. Which thinking about it it actually make sense at least when I think it about it in the terms of using the terms of a smart phone and how much data I go through. On an average month I use around 136,000 Kb just suffering the web and checking and I can understand better now about my usage. Especially after seeing the table.