Self-Reflection on the First IS Lesson

For our first IS lesson, we were introduced to a new teacher, Mr Kent, who would be teaching us on Web & New Media. As compared to our previous topic on C++, I would have more knowledge of this topic as I had once an experience of handling a blog.

We were taught about the Internet and the World Wide Web. New terms were taught to us like URL's (Uniform Resource Locator), IP (Internet Protocol) Address, FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and many more. I came to know new things like the advocacy website which I never knew before.

In this lesson, the new knowledge that interests me the most is the history of internet. I had never known that the Internet was only released in 1969 with only 4 host nodes. There was a massive change from the 4 host nodes in the past to more than 200 million host nodes presently.

Also, I came to know about the Web 2.0, an advanced version of Web 1.0. In the past, Web 1.0 could only allow 1 person to connect with the rest of the world in the Internet. However, currently, Web 2.0 had made it possible for the world to interact with each other via the World Wide Web.