Initial outline

An initial outline of the class, may be specified as we continue.

GENERAL OUTLINE
The boring things first - history of Internet
- together with principles
- packets and their life in the network
- webserver and other beasts
- protocols or "which language are you talking to me with"?
- gang of HTTP protocols
- DNS does not mean a DeNial of Service ;-)
- my address, my computer, my own place in the big big World
- changes in IP6 protocol aka "the death of Internet that had never come"
- censure of the internet, China "rulez"!
Services of Internet
- E-mail, the most successful thing ever - why?
- e-FfffTeePee, my electronic tent
- Usenet, teleconferences
- hey! You old guys, don't you know something better?
- peer-to-peer vs. client-server architecture
- how does the Skype works? Well, who knows... ;-)
- ICQ, file-sharing, podcasting (hope somebody will help me here :-)
Search engine is not a Ctrl+F function of your text editor
- crawlers, spiders, robots - my electronic friends and enemies (spambots) and how they work?
- index, indexes, indices - my pre-sorted list of (un)relevant things
- advertisements, business models (maybe)
Browser, browser, browser, oh mighty browser!
- (X)HTML - ehh, yes, another cumbersome details of one of many marking languages
- Javascript, DOM
- plugins and extensions (Java, Flash, Quicktime)
My web, my castle
- usability, accessibility of web pages
- yes, I can deploy that bloody thing even if I know nothing about programming!
Web 2.0
- some old fashioned library things as metadata, digital object identifiers, bibliographic description in a brand new world
- social sites, virtual communities, sharing, collaboration, 1+1 is not 2, but maybe 3,4,5....
- semantic web vs. Web 2.0
- no philosophy please, show me examples of services, trends, applications