Reading Notes- week 7

-Jeff Tyson, from How Stuff Works: This page is about how the internet works, and it explains some important parts of it. The internet is not owned by anyone, it is a network of global connections all joined together. While the internet itself is not owned, to get to it most people must sign up to use an ISP, or internet service provider, and pay a fee to use this service. Routers help to increase how fast your computer can go from one page to another. I never through about the fact that routers are computers, I knew they existed, but I never questioned directly what they were and what they did. I had heard of IP addresses before, and knew that each computer has its own unique IP address while connected to the internet. Two terms I had heard before but never knew what they meant are URL, and HTTP. These were both explained well in this article. A URL is a uniform resource locator, and it is the common name used for a website. HTTP is a hypertext transfer protocol; this was a little less clear to me exactly what it is and what it does.
-Andrew Pace- ILS: This article is about how libraries everywhere have to change and update their existing Integrated Library Systems. The reason for this is that they need newer technology to better serve their patrons both in the library and across the web. There has been some competition between the soft wear companies for this, competing to be the new popular ILS. The better systems cost more money, and open-source is not the best answer. There is still a search in libraries to fin the best new ILS.
-Google Video, Brin and Page: This video was very informative and also very funny. They explained how Google is constantly expanding, and how it is a global service in many different languages. Google funds their searched through advertisements, not by charging people to search. They also explained how many of the new programs from Google are created in their soft wear engineer’s spare time are small projects, or googlettes (blogger.com was one of these!). I found this video to be very interesting, since I use Google often, I liked seeing the people behind this site and hearing what they had to say about it.