the university of texas at austin
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE
What you (should) know now
If you have read all course pages and assigned readings, and you have
done all the exercises and completed the projects, and you have been in
class and asked questions online and f2f ("face 2 face"), you will find the
following list of tasks easy to complete!
Explain what the Internet is, and what
the "World Wide Web" really looks like.
Define the following Internet related terms:
- TCP/IP
- Internet addresses, domain names, and URLs
- Archie and Veronica
- listserv, listproc, and majordomo
- Netiquette: the "human protocols" ;-)
- FAQ
- HTML and HTTP
- Web browsers and servers
- Webmaster
- CGI
- unix
- Yahoo! and Altavista
- IRC, talk, and MUDs
- Java, VRML
You can use various tools, at least at a "beginner's" level:
- Send, read, and reply-to your email using pine, Eudora, or another email reader
- Subscribe and participate in a mailing list, and know how to obtain a list of participants
- Find and consult library catalogs and other resources via telnet, gopher, or a Web browser
- Retrieve a file using ftp, either from your unix prompt or via a Web browser
- Follow a newsgroup using tin, a Web browser, or any other news reader
- Use various services to find people on the Internet
- Login to a unix account, move around your directories, use pico to create a file
You can create a simple "website" or a collection of webpages:
- Use a text editor (notepad, simple text, pico, etc) to create an HTML'd page from scratch
- Add links to other resources
- Scan an image and incorporate it to your page
- Create a simple form
- Design the hierarchy of your pages
Discuss aspects of various Internet related issues:
- Is the internet's growth rate sustainable, and what are some of the related problems?
- Who are some of the Internet and/or Web pioneers, and why is their work important?
- What is the difference between a web directory and an index, and
which model is better for organizing web info?
- Is it possible to secure the information flowing through
the internet, and why would this be desirable?
- What is the most likely future of the Internet:
a tool to conduct business, an information providing medium, or
a "place" where individuals can communicate?
- What are some of the difficulties of keeping a website up?
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