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Can you live without WWW? I am sure to answer 'NO'.Everybody knows about WWW. If I ask you whether you know about www, you probablely say 'yes', but again asking you to explain what it is? Would you be able to do that? Yes, it is a tough question. Looking up the word in a dictionary, it says the World Wide Web is a computer system which links a documents and pictures and pictures into a database that is stored in computors in many different parts of the world and that people everywhere can use. The abbreviations WWW and Web are often used.As Dr.Yoon says, The WWW is a collaboratively authored hypertext and a standard. Also it is a vast, heterogeneous - means something (an object or system) consists of a diverse range of different items- network of people and machines. Assume that someone wrote a little in a paper and turns to the next person, and then he read it and wrote a little as well, and so on. This concept is collaboratively authered text. Also because of using a computer language HTML, it can be a standard.And do you know who wrote the www standards? There is a national institutes called ISO-international standards organization-. People who belong to the ISO create the standards in many fields. Actually they have created over 12,000 standards. The amazing(?) thing is that how much do you think they pay even to join to there? People who want to join pay $63,500 a year to get a full membership. That's a big money i think, but it would be worthy to them, not to me. Next question, which one do you think is first, a baby's name or birth of the baby? Someone may already decide his or her baby's name before the baby is born. The other hands, when a baby is born, their mother and father give him a name. In the same way, not only people make media, but also media make people. This is kinds of funny thing, but it is true. This all things I learned this week was fun and interesting.

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engelbart hypertext lsat week, we learend memex, and Bush's thinking.and this time, we also learend hypertext which is relative with that of last time.hypertext means One way that digital media has been understood is as new forms of writing, reading and thinking. and a system that people get information which was wanted by sequence.this hypertext is similar with dadaism.for example, a person think one word. and think another one word. consistently he think a word. and then he collect word and make poem. but this poem has no sense.second, a person choose an article, cut out article.so they mix and mix. but this cut ups doesn't limited text. voice, sound, image etc. so many things made by this method.engelbarthe wants to increase man's intellect."Man’s population and gross product are increasing at a considerable rate, but the complexity of his problems grows still faster, and the urgency with which solutions must be found becomes steadily greater. Augmenting man’s intellect, would warrant full pursuit by an enlightened society…”as we read that, this world becomes very complex and urgence. so he thinked better, faster access to computer.main point!he invented mouse, demo etc.in that time many people think engelbart's products were poor, no available. but today, we use them perfectly.commentfrankly say, in first I didn't understand the that page, so I read mat times. now a little bit I understand.I think engelbart is a great man. surely he invented many things, but I respect his unique concept. ;paradime. he considerate new idea, practise, research.....so new technology appear world, we use much more convenient .

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Summary & Opinion Welcome to the present In the vast interweaving of stories by means of which we create and maintain our human cultures, the story of progress has been one of the deepest and most powerful. Stories have beginnings and ends, actions have consequences. The entire structure of narrative depends upon this simple reationship.Implied in this way of thinking about the world is the idea that we are going somewhrer. that the end of everything, like the end of a story, is going to be satisfying, that it will be in some wense definitive.That's what "end" means, with perhaps the sole exception of personal death; and we don't think about that much anyway.
As we may think A writer of this essay is Dr. Vannevar Bush. Bush argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected human knowledge more accessible. (I thought that most important thing is 'Memex' in this essay. So I described 'Memex'. ) When the data of what kind of type is piled up in Depot, becomes the file with the alphabet order or numerical order. And it tracks information and searches information by classification. In addition, it searches one　　 item, then it comes out from the course system and must input the again new course. The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association. When one item is selected, it moves quickly to selected different item by association of thoughts. It was formed complicated tracks or trails. It move to place which is associated by wheel tracks or trails with non-linear method. Memory is temporary and instantaneous but its speed is great. The data which are distinguished by association of thoughts are quicker and softer than by index. This association indexing is possible by 'Memex'. I think that memex is great concept. Now, we use this concept in the Internet. I heard that 'hyperlink'. The memex is does not understand, but now, I understand from the explanation that hyperlink is a same concept.