TEC 912: Distributed Documents



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	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Spend some time exploring the What the Web does links below. You will find links to: a digital version of Vannevar Bush’s original July, 1945 Atlantic Monthly article located on a computer at Simon Fraser University in British Colombia, Canada a June, 1995 article on Ted Nelson’s Xanadu project located at the Wired magazine website in San Francisco, CA A May, 1996 article titled "Seek and Ye Shall Find (Maybe)" also from Wired magazine’s website in San Francisco, CA. An August, 2005 ten year retrospective look at the World Wide Web titled "We Are the Web" also from Wired Magazine's San Francisco website. What the Web Does It will become obvious as you explore these articles that you are seeing Bush and Nelson’s dreams of distributed documents in action. The websites exist in remote locations somewhere out there on the Web. The hypertext links on the course website (which is actually being served off a computer in Southern Florida) initiate a hypertext transfer protocol (http://…) that bring the text and image files directly to your computer where your web browser converts the digital information back into a readable format. Follow-up Assignment

Fresno Pacific University \| School of Professional Studies

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Aug. 3, 2005 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.



instructor \| listserve \| web board \| project archives \| toolkit

	Course Homepage Course Modules: Online Community Background Information Basic Web Searching Managing Resources Advanced Web Searching Comprehensive Web Search Strategies Course Projects Assessment	Spend some time exploring the What the Web does links below. You will find links to: a digital version of Vannevar Bush’s original July, 1945 Atlantic Monthly article located on a computer at Simon Fraser University in British Colombia, Canada a June, 1995 article on Ted Nelson’s Xanadu project located at the Wired magazine website in San Francisco, CA A May, 1996 article titled "Seek and Ye Shall Find (Maybe)" also from Wired magazine’s website in San Francisco, CA. An August, 2005 ten year retrospective look at the World Wide Web titled "We Are the Web" also from Wired Magazine's San Francisco website. What the Web Does It will become obvious as you explore these articles that you are seeing Bush and Nelson’s dreams of distributed documents in action. The websites exist in remote locations somewhere out there on the Web. The hypertext links on the course website (which is actually being served off a computer in Southern Florida) initiate a hypertext transfer protocol (http://…) that bring the text and image files directly to your computer where your web browser converts the digital information back into a readable format. Follow-up Assignment

Fresno Pacific University \| School of Professional Studies

Website maintained by Bob Jost \| bjost@josts.net \| last revised Aug. 3, 2005 Copyright © 1998-2002 by Bob Jost & Geoffrey Jost. All rights reserved. No part of this website may be transmitted, stored or recorded in any form without written permission from the authors.