Week 4

It was a public holiday this week because of Good Friday so it was our responsibility to read the lecture slides and do the tutorial activities at home. The lecture was about the Net vs the Web. On the net- you find computers, On the web- you find documents, sounds, videos and information. On the net- connections are cables between computers, on the web connections are hypertext links. The web was developed by Tim Berners- Lee in 1989 to facilitate sharing research information. I found it interesting what the end of web addresses mean-
.com- commercial
.org- organisation (non profit)
.net- network
.gov- government
.edu- education
Web browsers are programs that allow users to access and explore the pages of the world wide web eg. Internet Explorer.

The tutorial activity was to compare two websites
http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/
http://www.molossia.org/

http://www.haggishunt.scotsman.com/ is a site where you look at a series of photos and see if you can pick if there is a haggis in the photo, if you can see a haggis then you click a link saying 'I saw a haggis', and then a generated letter is sent to their Ghillie, which i looked up the definition and it means a shoe worn by a Scottish hunter, the Ghillie's name is Farquhar Farquharson, which is a fake made up name. And if the Ghillie concurs with the time and place of the sighting of the haggis, he will enter your details in the prize draw. The website seems cheap and nasty with annoying adverts down the edge of the page. But it is genuine with links down the bottom such as- contact, terms and conditions and competition rules. I don't think I would ever trust a website like this one thought.


http://www.molossia.org/ is a made up nation, The Republic of Molossia. Molossia is actually a town in western Nevada USA. It shows how easy it is to put false information on the Internet. People may think that the site is legitimate because it is authentic looking and updated and maintained regularly. Who ever made this site has put a lot of time and effort into making it look presentable. This website is completely false but not malicious.