Today we talked about narrative, hypertext, authority/author and CERN. Everything was really interesting but I really enjoyed talking about CERN which is the European Organization for Nuclear Research. I liked talking about this most because I watch The Big Bang Theory and the characters talk a lot about the CERN equipment. However we also talked about hypertext links which allow people to click on something on one page and it takes them to another page. I found it interesting that anyone could construct a hypertext and hypercard but I still don’t understand how it works overall. I understand Meta-narrative, where you don’t know if something exists, you just assume it does, a lot better. If you assume it exists that you accept there is an explanation for it and makes the events tell a story.

After talking about this we moved onto the Internet itself. The World Wide Web makes it very easy to steal and share it is a subdivision of the internet itself. It is based on a set of communication protocols. A URL is a uniform resource locator and I was really happy to finally know what URL stood for. I also learned that HTTP stands for hypertext transfer protocol  and HTML stands for hypertext make up language. I found the concept that if it is on the internet it belongs to the world. Because usually if you post something on social media you assume it belongs to you since you posted it. However anyone can see it so in a way, anything you post does belong to the world. All in all the internet was born out of  large scale government funding and the idea of free information to be shared.