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Week 2: Response to “Long Live the Web” by Tim Berner-Lee and “The Room Where the Internet Was Born” by Ingrid Burrington – Susie (Yi Shan)

      When I am reading “Long Live the Web”, I am thinking about the function of the website in our daily life. The web is very essential in our daily life. According to the author, the web is a public resource that almost all the things in your life depend. What impressed me is the part of “universality is the foundation”. Since people put things on the website, the whole network operates well. And all the things connect with each other by links. When I build my website, I also would like to put a lot of links so that my information will be connected to the boarder platform. In addition, I also learn a lot of base information about the web and internet by the article. The future web lets me think about the future development of the internet. Nowadays, people have developed a lot in open data and social machines. I am looking forward to the development of free bandwidth.

      In the second article, it talks about the places that the internet was invented. The author is going to see “The Cloud”. In his article, he describes the history of the computer and the internet. At that time, people developed a new technology called ARPANET, which expanded the principle of time-sharing. From this article, I start to think about how difficult the internet was developed and how people invented the new technology to improve the computer and internet. I am very appreciated that we have advanced time-sharing technology. I cannot imagine how our internet will be like if we don’t have these technologies. As I mentioned in the “Long Live the Web”, universality is the foundation of the website and internet. Only when we can upload our data on the internet can we build the internet. The cloud and ARPANET play the key roles in the development of the internet.

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HTML Portfolio Website – Kimmy Tanchay

http://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~kct285/Wk1/

Over the winter break, I taught myself some of the basics of HTML. As such, this made creating my webpage portfolio much faster as I was able to recall some of the aspects of that make up a webpage.

However, I’m still very new to coding and HTML which meant that I often forgot the functions of different tags and mistyped a lot of them. Perhaps what I found most difficult was including images into my page as I learned that HTML is extremely volatile towards changes of file location.

Overall, I’m looking forward to continue practicing, developing and integrating CSS into our webpages.

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Week 2: Response to “Long Live the Web” and “The Strange Geopolitics of the International Cloud” – Kimmy Tanchay

In “Long Live the Web”, Tim Berners-Lee communicates the egalitarian principles and its significance on the web. Through this, the web is able to be constantly improved by single individuals around the world. The unlimited possibilities and power of the web, for example, can be directly seen through the influences of social media that has now not only become a way of connecting and sharing with people, but also a necessity in our daily lives. There is no doubt that the Internet has changed and developed as rapidly as it has changed our lives. Despite the ever-growing possibilities of the web, the principles such as decentralisation, universality and openness must be protected by the public from various companies and governments who threaten these principles.

The Web’s development, along with many advantages, has also led to various problems such as involving human privacy rights issues and internet monopolies. As such, governments and private corporations are now able to access information about the millions of internet users – often without their consent; large internet companies are able to control what users see on search bars. Overall, this made me reflect that although the internet provides human being with large amounts of information and ways to connect with one another; however, we must keep in mind how the Internet was created to serve human being, not anything less.

In “The Strange Geopolitics of the International Cloud”, Burrington conveys how expansive the internet truly is through the various deep sea water cables and data centres around the world. I found the underlying geopolitical aspects of data centres extremely fascinating as although we use the internet ‘cloud’ in our everyday life, we never think about how this service or privilege is available to us. Before reading this article, I would never have guessed that a country’s cold climate or latency can determine data centre footprints. Moreover, I wouldn’t have been aware of the Microsoft legal battles over ownership of information and data. Hence, this article is a stark reminder of how us users should be more aware of how the Internet operates and works along with our rights as individuals online.

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Week 1: My about_me pages – Milly Cai

Here is the link to my about_me pages:

https://imanas.shanghai.nyu.edu/~yc2966/week01/about.html

I’m sorry for the link above does not truly work as there’s unknown error appearing and I’m still working on this problem.

The correct file should be like this:

about page

who am I

  

where do I from

 

know more(joking page 404)

Basically, I include four pages in this assignment: about(first) page with links to the other three, who am I page to introduce my basic information and hobbies with some pictures, where do I from to introduce my hometown, and know more page to make a 404 joke. Each subpage contains a link to go back to the about page.

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Week 1: Response to Li Edelkoort and Kate Fletcher – Ji Hwan Shin

It was interesting to watch Li Edelkoort’s “Anti-Fashion Manifesto” because she highlighted the backwards trends the fashion industry has been following and how these choices eventually led to fashion becoming “unfashionable.” True to what she stated, many fashion houses are promoting representation by including models of color and different sexualities. Also, several online campaigns like Calvin Klein’s #MYCALVINS social media movement are bringing a more interactive approach to advertising.

I feel like at this point in history, the negative effects of mass production on the environment and the exploitation of workers should be the focus of attention in the fashion industry. Just like Kate Fletcher mentioned in her piece about slow fashion, a vision of sustainability should challenge economic priority that has been prevalent in both industrial and high fashion. In order to satiate consumers’ increasing demands for off the runway and affordable apparels, companies churn out cheap and low quality garments that are achieved through heavy exploitation of labor. Edelkoort’s comment about how consumers’ purchasing decisions can actually be life threatening for others really highlights the need for a dialogue of ethics and sustainability to take place.

I also liked Edelkoort’s idea to revolutionize fashion studies by putting emphasis on textile education. Bringing the high tech aspects of Silicone Valley and the slow craft artisans of the Hudson Valley, she says that more and more young people are transforming traditional machines to create price conscious garments of higher quality. She proposes that larger fashion brands should foster these rising young brands while encouraging designers to form bonds. I believe that revolutionizing textile education while having more resources available for bright young minds will direct the fashion industry closer towards sustainability.