We are the internet (adapted from "wearetheweb.org").
It seems that an introduction about anything almost always have to include a history component, yeah? But I shan't go into details about it. Let's just make it optional, so here's a video about the history of the Internet for interested parties.
History of the Internet by picolsigns
And here's one more video about how the Internet works.
World Wide Web in Plain English by leelefever
When we speak of the Internet, we cannot isolate it from greater issues such as the digital divide, which exists between the developed and the developing nations, as well as between more affluent and poorer citizens in each country (albeit to a much milder extent). The 80/20 rule was mentioned in class.
The 80/20 rule (also known as the Pareto principle, the law of the vital few, and the principle of factor sparsity) predicts that ~80% of effects result from ~20% of the causes in many events. This principle is more commonly encountered in business, but can also be applied to technology and the Internet.
The Internet is a very vast space, and there are currently no less than 11.5 billion websites existing (statistic taken from WorldWideWebSize.com, retrieved 1 September 2011). But how many of them do we visit, or even are aware of? Just a very small fraction of that number, no doubt.
This is just a brief insight to how huge the Internet is, and there will definitely be more features that we will explore in this blog. Keep on reading, folks!
