| Lesson 5 The web Working in pairs, read History of the World Wide Web. Using this and also two excerpted paragraphs from John Naughton (below), create a timeline of the key events: some of this will be a revision exercise of material covered in Lesson 4, but there is also new information concerning famous websites — and you should find out more about these if you have never heard of them (eg, Napster). John Naughton (in Kids, computer games and – oh yeah – learning, a lecture delivered in May, 2007) said: Today's 22-year-olds were born in 1985. The Internet was two years old in January that year, and Nintendo launched 'Super Mario Brothers', the first blockbuster game. When they were going to primary school in 1990, Tim Berners-Lee was busy inventing the World Wide Web. The first SMS message was sent in 1992, when these kids were seven. Amazon and eBay launched in 1995. Hotmail was launched in 1996, when they were heading towards secondary school.Not all of the information Naughton provides is about web-based sites: why do you think he includes this other material? Class-based work: discuss and talk through what each group has assembled. Prep for lesson 5: write up a timeline of key events (revised in the light of class-based discussion). Save in appropriate format to own area of network. |