Internet Applications

Aug. 21, 26
Administrivia: class policys, expectations, on-line syllabus
Surfing the Web
Growth of the Web (Matthew Gray at MIT)
Introduction to the Internet
Internet Applications Structure
Domains and Hosts: the Internet Name Structure
Aug 28
No Class
September 1
No Class -- University Holiday
Sept. 4, 9
Telnet & Internet addressing
Introduction to Unix and Filesystem Concepts
Email: Pine on Unix
Mailing Lists
Sept. 11, 16
Email: MIME & Listservers
Usenet News & Newsreaders
SIFT
Read Chapter 13 in Using the Internet (Email) and Chapter 19 (News)
Read Chapter 4 in EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet (suggested)
Sept. 18
FTP
Sept. 23
Archie, WAIS
Ungraded Exercises
Answers!

World Wide Web and Web Publishing

September 25
Introduction to the World Wide Web URLs, Browser Wars
Sept. 30
Basic HTML and HTML+
Creating Web Pages
HTML 3.0
HTML Style: writing for the hyperlinked media
Chapters 1,2,3 in HTML Sourcebook
Oct. 2
Internet Resource Discovery: Alta Vista and beyond
October 7
Student Talks begin
Images in Web Publishing: GIF, JPEG, PNG
October 9
Image Maps
October 14
Forms (gforms example)
October 16
No class (Fall Break)
October 21
Basics of Gateway Scripting
October 23
Javascript (I)
October 28
Javascript (II)
October 30
Midterm Exam

Digital Multimedia and the World Wide Web

November 4
Digital Audio
  • L. Press, "Net.Speech: Desktop Audio Comes to the Net", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, Number 10, October 1995, pp. 25-31. (on reserve)
November 6
Digital Video (page by Jim Gogan, Director of Networking and Telecommunications, UNC-CH)
Xing Streamworks
Suggested readings:
November 11
WWW Collaboration Tools
November 13
Digital Libraries (4 Perspectives)
November 18
Distance Learning Technologies

Impact of the Internet Technologies

November 20
On-line Journalism and Scholarship
November 25
Privacy: PGP, Public Key Encryption, Cookies
November 27
The New Economy
December 2
Security and Telecommunication Deregulation
December 4
Speculations on the Future
December 10 at noon
Final Project due!!