WORLD WIDE WEB

• Digital Native: a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age
• The World Wide Web: an information system on the Internet that allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another. Invented by Tim Berners Lee
• The World Wide Web browser software allows users to navigate from one web page to another. These pages may contain computer data, graphics, sounds, text, video, multimedia, and interactive content
• Web 1.0 or The Web:

  • First stage of the World Wide Web evolution
  • Flat or stationary page that cannot be manipulated by the user
  • Typically read-only, focus on company-owned content, banner advertising, visual/interactive web, active from 1989-2005
• Web 2.0 or The Social Web:

  • Allows users to interact with the page
  • Users can comment or create a user account
  • Most websites visited today are Web 2.0
  • Strongly read-write, focus on the community, shared content, interactive advertising, programmable web, active from 1999-2012
• Web 3.0 or Semantic Web:

  • Provides a framework that allows data to be shared and reused to deliver web content targeting the user
  • Read-write-interact, focus on the individual, consolidated content, behavioral advertising, linked data web, active from 1999-ongoing
• Convergence: combination of two or more different entities of technologies to create a new single device
• Social Media: websites, applications, or online channels that enable web users to create, co-create, modify, and exchange user-generated content
• Types of Social Media:

  1. Social Networks: sites that allow you to connect with people with the same interests or background (e.g., Facebook, Google)

  2. Bookmarking Sites: sites that allow users to store and manage links to various websites and resources, and to tag (e.g., Stumble Upon, Pinterest)

  3. Social News: sites that allow users to post their own news items or links to other news sources (e.g., reddit, dig)

  4. Media Sharing: sites that allow you to upload and share media content like images, music, and video (e.g., Flickr, YouTube, Instagram)
• 5. Microblogging: sites that focus on short updates from the user, subscribers receive updates (e.g., Twitter, Plurk)

  6. Blogs and Forums: sites that allow users to post their content (e.g., Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr)
• Mobile Technologies: smartphones and tablets have risen in popularity due to their capabilities similar to personal computers. Different types of mobile operating systems include iOS, Android, Blackberry OS, Windows Phone OS, Symbian, WebOS, Windows Mobile
• Assistive Media: a nonprofit service designed to help people with visual and reading impairments by using a database of audio recordings to read to the user
• Internet Threats:

  • Malware: harmful programs or files to computer users
  • Types of Malware:

  1. Virus

  2. Worm

  3. Trojan

  4. Spyware

  5. Adware

  6. Ransomware

  • Spam: unwanted emails often used to send malware
  • Phishing: aims to acquire sensitive personal information like passwords and credit card details
• Web 1.0 or The Web:

  • First stage of the World Wide Web evolution
  • Flat or stationary page that cannot be manipulated by the user
  • Typically read-only
  • Focus on company-owned content
  • Includes banner advertising
  • Visual/Interactive Web
  • Active from 1989-2005
• Web 2.0 or The Social Web:

  • Allows users to interact with the page
  • Users may comment or create a user account
  • Most websites today are Web 2.0
  • Strongly read-write
  • Focus on the community
  • Includes shared content
  • Interactive advertising
• Semantic web provides a framework that allows data to be shared and reused to deliver web content specifically targeting the user
• Semantic web focuses on read-write-interact, individual user focus, consolidated content, behavioral advertising, and linked data web
• Social Networks:

  • Sites that allow you to connect with other people with the same interests or background
  • Examples: Facebook, Google
• Bookmarking Sites:

  • Sites that allow users to store and manage links to various websites and resources, and to tag
  • Examples: Stumble Upon, Pinterest
• Social News:

  • Sites that allow users to post their own news items or links to other news sources
  • Examples: reddit, dig
• Media Sharing:

  • Sites that allow you to upload and share media content like images, music, and video
  • Examples: Flickr, YouTube, Instagram
• Microblogging:

  • Sites that focus on short updates from the user. Subscribers receive updates
  • Examples: Twitter, Plurk
• Blogs and Forums:

  • Sites that allow users to post their content
  • Examples: Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr
• Types of Malware:

  • Virus: designed to replicate itself and transfer from one computer to another
  • Worm: transfers from one computer to another by any means
  • Trojan: disguises as a useful program but leaves your PC unprotected and allows hackers to get your information
  • Spyware: runs in the background without your knowledge
  • Adware: sends advertisements, mostly as pop-ups
  • Ransomware: type of malicious software from cryptovirology