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\"\"Martin Weller provides a fundamental and fascinating overview of the past 25 years of educational technology.\u00a0 His chapter on the Web is the one I related to the most because of the amazement I personally experienced when I conducted my first Web search.\u00a0 I appreciated the author starting with the timeline of 1994 and his account of the early phase of the Web, dial-up modem and Bulletin Board System followed by the revolutionary role of the Web in giving birth to many of the learning technologies and the online social communities being used today.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the revelation from the book was about who invented the World Wide Web and how little I understood of its creation.\u00a0 For years, I thought the Web had been created by the military to share sensitive information. \u00a0It is in fact, Sir Tim Berners-Lee who invented the Web to share scientific information with other scientists from around the world.\u00a0 I had to google the military Web involvement to demystify my perception.\u00a0 It was true that the internet (not the Web) was first invented for military purposes, which was then expanded to the purpose of communication among scientists (Naughton, 2016).\u00a0 Light bulb moment! Until now, I had referred to the Web and the Internet interchangeably.\u00a0 Weller (2020) further explains that the Web (online pages) was built on the Internet (network) to make it secured and reliable.\u00a0 Weller\u2019s (2020) description of the Web development from its \u201cfundamental design principles\u201d (p. 16) with the creation of the four technologies (HTML, URI, HTTP, Web browser) still fundamentally operating to ensure accessibility of information to anyone with an integral \u201cdemocratization of communication\u201d (p. 16), with \u201cthe freedom to publish, communicate, and share\u201d (p. 18).\u00a0 These clarifications created a mental framework that will certainly help me comprehend better the educational technologies and online social communities I use every day.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

Naughton, J. (2016).\u00a0 The evolution of the Internet: from military experiment to general purpose technology. Journal of Cyber Policy<\/em>.\u00a0 1(1), 5-28. https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/23738871.2016.1157619<\/a><\/p>\n

Weller, M. (2020).\u00a025 Years of Ed Tech<\/em><\/a>. Athabasca University Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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