Module One Unit Work & Telnet Task

Concept: The Persistence Of History & Internet Origins

Key Focus Points

• Understanding the origins of Internet development helps explain and put into context the its current manifestation.

References for: Persistence Of History & Internet Origins

www.isoc.org/internethistory
This is the "Internet Societies" home page. It documents the origins of the Internet. It introduces some of the key people and thinking behind what the Internet has become.

http://www.blogger.com/www.w3.org/history.html
This is the website of Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web consortium, senior researcher at MIT's CSAIL (computer science and artificial intelligence lab) and a professor in computer science. Most notable to this concept though is his development, in 1989, of the world wide web, an Internet based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing (In other words, a protocol that lets you link up to other sites on the Internet). Explains the origins and people & events leading to the development of www, TCP/IP, html, DNS.

www.walthowe.com.navnet/history
This is a cool site that incorporates detailed history of the Internet with cool stories and explanations. It has a great link called the "Internet Learning Tree" that defines terms and explains concepts, including a glossary. Walt Howe is a consultant and training specialist based in the U.S and is co-author of "Internet Basics" (1993 with Steve Lambert). He's a member of the above mentioned ISOC and SLA (Special Libraries Assoc.). It's perhaps a little basic for an advanced user but right where I'm at :)

Telnet Exercise

Description

Followed the directions in the curriculum and had little difficulty. Read the new users guide for ftp client.

Concerns

Nothing major at this point. I have alot of reading and I'm perhaps not as thorough as I should be.

Problem: I had trouble locating 'Windows Telnet' suggested in the assessment. In all the excitement to get this task underway, I missed the link

http://www.ftpplanet.com/download.html for downloading the ftp client so I put the name into the search engine instead. It found a variety of confusing pages like 'Windows Product Documentation'. I ended up finding the exact same client (I think) ZOC/Pro4 through the exact same site; http://www.blogger.com/www.ipswitch.com with the help of an online friend.

Solution: Grow some patience!!!!!! I know better, I was just over-enthused.

Evaluation

I need to read the tasks twice. In the end that will save me the time it takes to fix my mistakes and avoid silly errors. I'm assuming that, being the first task, I was a little "excited" and got ahead of myself. At least I know this particular over site wont happen again. The actual task itself went very well, without incident.

Analysis

I dont have a strong understanding of the applications of an ftp client. Ok, so it's useful for browsing catalogues (like libraries, inventories, stock supplies). Perhaps, in community services, it could be used to browse DOCS legal files or government legislation? I feel I need to expand my understanding of where I would use this knowledge in real life.

Conclusion

As I've mentioned before, often the application of new knowledge comes later when put in a certain context &/or coupled with other knowledge. I have started a list in the back of my unit workbook titled "?'s". The further application of ftp clients is now in it.

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