3week

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.