Sunday, 17 November 2013

The Internet VS The Worldwide Web

The internet is the communication between all the computers all over the globe via a broadband connection. The computers communicate using a type of technological language called protocols.

The World Wide Web, or just Web, is a way of accessing information over Internet. It is an information-sharing structure that is built on top of the Internet. The Web uses the protocol, only one of the languages spoken over the Internet, to transmit data. Web services, which use protocols to allow applications to communicate in order to exchange business logic, use the the Web to share information. The Web also utilizes browsers, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, to access Web documents called Web pages that are linked to each other via hyperlinks. Web documents also contain graphics, sounds, text and video.

Most people do not know the difference these two things; Worldwide web and the internet. I hope this has fully explained what the main differences are.

Saturday, 16 November 2013

The First Commercial Browser!!

 Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser on a NeXT computer,he called it Worldwide Web, finishing the first version on Christmas day, 1990. He released the program to a number of people at CERN in March, in1991, introducing the web to a physics community, and beginning its spread.
The company developed into a pool of knowledge as Lee was now director of the company. His ideas were brilliant, one of which was Hypertext,this was made to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will.

Sunday, 3 November 2013

Is Wikileaks a force for good?

Wikileaks was created in the year 2006 by Julian Assange. It publishes secret or classified or private information. It receives it through anonymous news sources and leaks. It works under the slogan 'We open Governments' and at first it was possible to edit it whoever you are. Now it has become a bit more traditional as only selected writers can publish any articles. It now is surrounded by controversy and cold blooded people control it.





Many people will say that they want to know what their governments and politicians are up to after all they did elect them into this position. This occurred in Britain with the expenses scandal. Members of Parliament were claiming expenses to which they were not entitled to. There were some ridiculous cases where a person had claimed a large amount of money to build a moat around his duck house. 

The Government repaid everything immediately and the situation was done and dusted which is the positive side of Wikileaks and things like it can do.

On the other hand, in Tunisia, a small amount of corruption was uncovered and this sent the country into a revolution. The president had to flee the country and many people were killed in riots and police trying to defend their positions. Many lives were lost and I believe that it is not worth to send people to their peril just to expose corruption. Even worse Egypt is in a revolution of its own which has been a knock on effect from Tunisia. More people have been killed and another so-called democracy is overthrown.

I also believe that with no government these countries will be influenced by crime and terrorist organizations will shelter in these places. This will place the West in danger and even further loss of life will occur. Wikileaks has inadvertently set off a chain reaction which will in the end hit them the hardest.

Wikileaks hacks into people privacy and will expose whatever they find there. I believe that a person's private conversation and life should be respected and kept private. Nobody wants their private facts to be released as it can be highly embarrassing and stain that person career forever. This could prevent him from getting a job and could even end up in suicide.

Saturday, 2 November 2013

Nintendo

Almost everybody knows Nintendo for making video games but this was not always so. And if you know Nintendo then there's a very large chance you know who this is.
It's a me Mario


Back in 1951 they were called Nintendo playing cards and as their name implied they made handmade playing cards, these were intended for american export only however they became hugely popular in Japan.

In 1980 Nintendo began there production of the GAME & WATCH in Japan. The GAME & WATCH system were the first portable LCD video games. Also Donkey Kong is made. The hero was originally Called Jumpman and he had to save his girlfriend, Pauline, from a crazed ape called Donkey Kong.

1989 The Game Boy is released the first portable gaming system with changeable cartridges, they however did not use colour yet, the only colour you could see was a dim green.

1996 Nintendo release Pokemon for the game boy colour which over the years becomes a multibillion dollar franchise. Pokemon centered around catching, trading and battling Pokemon this was very much like a trading card came only with movement. There were 151 Pokemon to collect how ever you would have to trade with other people to catch them all, this idea of linking games was very new. Depending on what version you bought, red or blue, that would be the only colour displayed to that game.

Also in this year Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64, it was called this because it was a 64 bit system(Keep in mind that nowadays you can run 1920 by 1080 bits). While the Nintendo's gaming competition moved to use discs Nintendo still used cartridges.

The Nintendo 64 was also Nintendo's first 3D Console. not 3D as it came out of the screen but that the player could move left, right, forward, backwards and up and down.

2001 The Nintendo Game cube is released however is greatly over shadowed by the roaring success of the PlayStation 2 released a year earlier. The GameCube was shadowed as well because it used mini-discs meaning it couldn't play DVDs like other current consoles.

In 2006 The Nintendo is released and is still one of the most popular portable devices today. This is because of its apeal to people of all ages because of Mario Bros for the young children to Games sutied to older people like Dr Kawashimas brain training.

The DS and The Wii has brought a whole new media of people to gaming through games like wii fit and Brain Training for the DS.

These types of Games are known as Casual games and are aimed at people who normaly wouldn't do any gaming.