HCI 201 Multimedia and The World Wide Web

About Me Contact info:  CTI Building 738   (312) Education  Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, Kent State University  MBA, Kent State University  BS Mechanical Engineering, GMI Engineering & Management Institute Teaching  IS, IT, HCI, ECT courses Research  Knowledge Management  Virtual workplace design

About You Please fill out the profile sheet I will pass out in class. It’s available as a COL Course Document also.

About this course Required Textbook The Non-Designer’s Web Book, 3 rd Edition, Williams & Tollett, Peachpit Press, ISBN

Course format Two places for information  “facweb”:  COL: Use your CampusConnect username and password Submit homework Check grades Make sure you have your correct on file Lectures  Some Powerpoint, discussion Lab  I am working on lab reservations. More on this later. Student presentations  More on this later.

Course Assignments General information on facweb Detailed assignment information will always be posted on COL Submit assignments to COL

The Internet

History of Internet Started 1960s - Packet Switching Research project by U.S. Department of Defense ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency) Really took off in 1993

History of the World Wide Web CERN (Tim Berners-Lee) developed authoring language and distribution system for creating and sharing multimedia- enabled, integrated electronic documents over the Internet World Wide Web and HTML was born Allows relationships between documents and elements NCSA developed Mosaic to view these documents

Overview The Internet The WWW How does it all work?  Hardware  Software  Networking  Protocols

Internet and World Wide Web What’s the difference between the two terms?

The Internet and the WWW The Internet (late 60s): “It’s a worldwide collection of computer networks – a network of networks – sharing digital information via a common set of networking and software protocols.” HTML & XHTML – The Definitive Guide The World Wide Web (early 90s): the monster application that runs on the Internet infrastructure (over 2 billion pages).  With the invention of GUI -> color, voice and video were added to the Internet.

History of the Internet Started 1960s - Packet Switching Research project by U.S. Department of Defense ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency) Really took off in 1993, why?

History of the World Wide Web CERN (Tim Berners-Lee) developed authoring language and distribution system for creating and sharing multimedia-enabled, integrated electronic documents over the Internet CERN (Tim Berners-Lee) World Wide Web and HTML was born. Allows relationships between documents and elements. NCSA developed Mosaic to view these docs.

Overview The Internet The WWW How does it all work?  Hardware  Software  Networking  Protocols

Hardware The difference between hardware and software is you can touch hardware. The hardware you need to be connected to the Internet is  A computer  A networking device, e.g. a modem or network card  A connection, e.g. At home, an Internet Service Provider At school, a LAN connection

Telephone (Dial-Up) Modem: Low Speed but Inexpensive & Widely Available Modem - device that sends and receives data over telephone lines to and from computers Most modems today have a maximum speed of 56 Kbps.

Internet Service Provider (ISP) ISP - a company that connects you through your communications line to its servers, or central computer, which connect you to the Internet via another company’s network access points

Software Software is a term used to describe programs that allow the hardware to do things for you. You need a few pieces of software to connect to the Internet  An operating system, e.g. Windows XP  A browser, e.g. Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera If you want to develop web sites or pages, you need a few more  Authoring tool, e.g. Notepad, Dreamweaver or Frontpage  FTP program, to transfer files from your client machine (in front of you) to the server (your students account), e.g. SSH

Protocols Because networks use a wide variety of hardware and software, protocols are needed to coordinate communication and data transmission. A protocol is a set of rules for the exchange of data across communication lines. Protocols make the whole thing work!

Standards Organizations World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) URL

What protocols do Identify the different devices in the communication path. Establish the speed and method for transmission of data. Alert the receiving device to the incoming data. Determine the method of error checking and correction.

HyperText Transfer Protocol HTTP is the protocol responsible for transferring and displaying web pages. HTTP uses the client/server model of computing. The client is the user’s web browser: a software program that retrieves the page and displays it. (I.E, Netscape).  A Web browser can either be text-based, or graphical. A Web page is stored on a Web server, which makes the page available to users of the Web. The server is the web server where the page resides. (Ex:

TCP/IP protocol TCP – Transmission Control Processing IP – Internet Protocol TCP: Rules to control on how messages are broken down into packets, and then reassembled at the final destination. IP: Rules to label packets for delivery and to control the packet’s path from sender to recipient. TCP/IP software processes data transmission through the Internet.

Internet protocols Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP): transferring messages from one machine to another File Transfer Protocol (FTP): transferring files between local and remote machines. Telnet: a terminal emulation protocol used to remote login. Others? TCP/IP HTTP POP

IP addresses: dotted quads Each node in the IP world is identified by a unique 32-bit number called an IP address. IP addresses appear as a series of four 8-bit numbers separated by dots (dotted quads). Each number ranges from 0 to students.cs.depaul.edu IP addresses are usually assigned human- readable names (domain names).

IP Address

Domain Name Server (DNS) (Domain Name) (IP Address) IP addresses are hard to remember.

amazon.com yahoo.com microsoft.com depaul.edu chicago.com news.com cnn.com Domain

Amazon. COM yahoo.com microsoft.com depaul.edu chicago.com news.com cnn.com Domain Name

Domain Name Server A Domain Name Server is responsible for the mapping between domain names and IP addresses. bach.cs.depaul.edu Org. type (top level domain) Organization name Host name IP address: com.org.gov.mil.net.fr.museum.biz

A Typical HTTP Exchange Client: Please open a connection to ‘ and send me the default file. I am located at IP Address Netscape’s URL Window NY Times Web Server Server: Let me check…. Okay, the default file at this site is of type HTML. It is 1749 bytes in size. The date is Tue, May 2nd at 15:33:33. NY Times Web Page

Web Pages and Web Browsers A Web page is stored on a Web server, which makes the page available to users of the Web. To view a Web page, the user runs a Web browser, a software program that retrieves the page and displays it. A Web browser can either be text-based, or graphical.

URL: Uniform Resource Locator People on the Web use a naming convention called the uniform resource locator (URL). A URL consists of at least two and as many as four parts. A simple two part URL contains the protocol used to access the resource followed by the location of the resource. Example: A more complex URL may have a file name and a path where the file can be found.

domain The protocol used path that indicates the location of the document in the host’s file system document name A Web URL deconstructed The user is a directory in the system

cs. depaul. edu Handle Host/ServerDomain Top level domain Others: students hawk condor Others: com, net, org, mil, gov fr, uk, dz info, biz, name, pro, museum, coop Anatomy of an address