Key Words: Educational Computing Internet World Wide Web WWW The explosion in the use of the Internet is due almost exclusively to the technology of hypertext mark-up language (HTML) and the development of the World Wide Web (WWW). Before there was HTML (which lets you point and click to negotiate the Internet), in order to get anywhere on the Internet you had to know what text commands to type into your computer. In other words, you had to know a special language to be able to talk on or with the Internet. This made the Internet a rather specialized instrument, used only by computer-literate types and particularly interested academics. It was inaccessible to most people because they had no idea how to communicate on it. The WWW changed all this by making information accessible to anyone who has the most basic computer skills. The WWW superseded the need to communicate by typing in specialized language commands. This innovation eliminated much of the old-style of computer communication in much the same way that fax machines have essentially eliminated the telegraph and reduced special deliveries of urgent information in tangible paper form. The vast majority of people
Educational Computing: The World Wide Web and Internet: On-Line Communication, Collaboration, and Collegiality
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Key Words: Educational Computing Internet World Wide Web WWW The explosion in the use of the Internet is due almost exclusively to the technology of hypertext mark-up language (HTML) and the development of the World Wide Web (WWW). Before there was HTML (which lets you point and click to negotiate the Internet), in order to get anywhere on the Internet you had to know what text commands to type into your computer. In other words, you had to know a special language to be able to talk on or with the Internet. This made the Internet a rather specialized instrument, used only by computer-literate types and particularly interested academics. It was inaccessible to most people because they had no idea how to communicate on it. The WWW changed all this by making information accessible to anyone who has the most basic computer skills. The WWW superseded the need to communicate by typing in specialized language commands. This innovation eliminated much of the old-style of computer communication in much the same way that fax machines have essentially eliminated the telegraph and reduced special deliveries of urgent information in tangible paper form. The vast majority of people
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Educational Computing: The World Wide Web and Internet: On-Line Communication, Collaboration, and Collegiality
Kramer, Thomas; Kennedy, Robert
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American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc (Journal) – Mar 1, 1998
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