Keyword: INTERNET

I chose to research the topic, “Internet” and used the Gale Virtual Reference Library available in the Clark College library online. The first thing that I was offered if I was using this tool to actually write a research paper or substantial essay was to choose my source of material. I might look at popular magazines, scholarly journals, newspapers, books, eBooks, and websites to find material for my research.

The easiest way to do find information for my topic would be the use of a “keyword” which means, “a term used as a keyword to retrieve documents in an information system such as a catalog or a search engine,” (Wikipedia.org).

I quickly found the word “internet” to be very generalized and I will need to narrow it down to what it is  about the internet I want to know such as “when was the internet developed” or “how many people use the internet daily”. Keywords for “internet” via Google were: internet service, internet service providers, high speed internet, internet explorer, internet history, who invented the internet, internet speed test, internet capitalized.

Although Google can offer me billions of web pages regarding the “internet”, I would want to use the “deep web” to collect quality information. School libraries are part of the deep web and require passwords or subscriptions to use but their web page does not. An example would be that a library’s home page is accessible because of their school name being on the web, however, you cannot access their catalog without a password or subscription.

I’m going to focus my research on “who invented the internet” as this is really interesting to me.

This specific research topic did not have any matches in GVRL, although some of the keywords offered there included: Academic open Internet journal, A nil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Book Reviews,  Anil Aggrawal's Internet journal of forensic medicine and toxicology,  Canadian Internet Registration Authority Decisions , Chemical journal on Internet,  Computer & Internet lawyer  Health information on the Internet,  High-speed internet access,  IDP : revista de internet, derecho y política", Inside the Internet , International Journal of Internet Science , Internet & Catalog Retail Industry Profile: Global  Internet Access Industry Profile: Asia-Pacific  Internet Access Industry Profile: Australia  Internet & electronic commerce strategies,  Internet Access Industry Profile: Belgium  Internet Access Industry Profile: Brazil .

The article title I found in Google using my keywords is, “Not "Who invented the Internet?" -- How!” and can be accessed at the following web link,http://www.forbes.com/sites/jerrymichalski/2012/07/26/not-who-invented-the-internet-how/

This topic is so popular that I only had to type w-h-o (space) i-n, before I was prompted with the complete listing I was after. Keywords from this specific search included: who invented the internet and what year, who invented the cell phone, history of the internet, who invented the world wide web, who invented Google, who invented the computer, who invented the television, who invented the internet al gore.

The article was written by Jerry Michalski, Contributor on July 26, 2012 who states, in part, “The Internet was a clever hack of most major existing communication systems. It was built by researchers outside the profit spotlight, funded by public and private money and personal effort. Its developers came together to architect a system that would simply carry packets from one place on Earth to another as well as possible, letting the packets follow disparate routes and even get lost along the way, and then reassembling them into useful streams on the far side. These engineers’ ethics were baked into the code they wrote, so the system favors egalitarian treatment of bits and doesn’t truck much with ways to create scarcity and differentiate commercial offers.”

I also used Wikipedia on the Open Web to explore this topic further. A “wiki” is a web page that many people can contribute to and edit, so although Wikipedia is a quick way to get information on specific topics, the authors are usually unknown and unverifiable. If you want to find out who wrote the topic you are exploring, simply click on the “history” tab at the top of every wiki page.

When I entered the same search term, I was given the message, “The page "Who invented the internet" does not exist. You can ask for it to be created, but consider checking the search results below to see whether the topic is already covered.”

I was given several other links to choose from and found, “Al Gore (redirect from I invented the internet) they took what he said, which was a carefully phrased comment about taking the initiative and creating the Internet to—I invented the Internet…”,  to be something I would want to read as I was always under the assumption that Al Gore invented the internet.,

Now that I have completed this week’s assignment, I am wondering if I was to use GVRL as my main resource of information and have posted more information about my Google search instead. This made sense to me as another topic covered this week was in reference to the deep web and GVRL did not produce what I was looking for. Perhaps my blog name is more accurate than I thought; “College At Forty” could very well include the byline, “Getting Better With Age”. I will be sure to ask more specific questions next week!