2009 201

Web Fundamentals

• Internet vs. Web
• Berners-Lee
• Protocol
• HyperText
• HTTP
• IP Address
• Domain Name
• URL
• Index.html / Index Views
• HTML
• Browsers
• HTTP

Reading

• The History of the IMG (and EMBED tags)
• Mark Andreessen's email proposal of the tag. Note the discussion of formats (xbm). Interesting to cf discussion of propriety open formats such as JPEG and the more controversial "GIF" and eventual development of PNG as an open alternative.
• http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0186.html

Exercise

• Exercise: IMG collage

Possible extensions

• Extending to linked images / create a small set of cross linked pages
• Using Python to generate your collage and/or produce automatic collage indexes (menu into other collages).
• Collage with iframes

Resources

• http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html
• http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Tags.html
• http://www.w3.org/People.html
• http://ted.hyperland.com/TQdox/zifty.d9-TQframer.html

• http://www.grammatron.com/ from Mark Amerika
• http://myboyfriendcamebackfromth.ewar.ru/ from Olia Lialina