Topics to be covered in Sem 097 - Getting Connected - The Web, The Net, and You

• How did it get started? - History of the Internet
• How does it work?
  • TCP/IP
  • Client-Server
  • Domain Name Service
• Protocols and Applications
  • telnet
  • ftp
  • http
  • gopher
• The World Wide Web, and how it bundles all of this together
• Content - what's out there anyway?
  • Menu structure vs Hypertext
  • Browsing
  • Web search engines
• Creating your own Web pages
  • HTML
  • Gathering material to reflect your own academic and extracurricular interests
• Internet Culture and legal issues
  • Netiquette in Netnews and Email
  • Obscenity, and Copyright issues - The CDA
  • Internet commerce and digital cash
  • Privacy and Cryptography - PGP
• On-line Library resources
• Multimedia
  • Images
  • Video
  • Sound
• Java
  • What is it?
  • Some examples
• Other technical developments
  • Mbone
  • ppp
  • ...

In addition to the above topics, each session will start with "Show and Tell." Students are asked to each bring one item (e.g. newspaper or magazine article, radio or TV report, etc) to class each week concerning a social, commercial, legal, ethical, or technical issue regarding the Internet.