I use the internet every day (in this day and age, who doesn't?) and thought learning about it would be quite simple - I mean, what more could I be taught about something that I have already used for a frighteningly large proportion of my daily life? The place I go to look up enough news to blunder through daily conversations with people who wake up early enough to catch morning shows, the place I go to get in contact with friends FASTER than I ever could do with a phone. The internet has become such an integral thing within my life, I took for granted just what goes into it.
Behind every funny picture someone might post on Facebook, is a long list of coding that would not make sense to me at this moment in time. I may be able to create a decent tumblr (or blogspot) account quite quickly, and be able to use it efficiently within ten minutes, BUT I wouldn't know where to start coding a website. Something to do with slashes and brackets, right? Anyway, the point is I am already playing with the lego house after it has been built, previously oblivious about the amount of work that went into placing every block into its right place.
So, of course when my first lecture came around, I was bewildered. They were talking about people who I had never heard of before, who I had never given a thought to. There were grainy black and white pictures of big, hulking machines that seemed to take up a whole room. Diagrams of simple file sharing ideas, that look so much more complicated than an email might be. It was fascinating, I realised that when I would call myself computer literate, I wasn't taking into account just how much I don't know about the internet, and I hope this course can make the number of things I don't know diminish, and I can actually learn what HTML stands for, since it's been bugging me for a long time.
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