Today the world wide web is more accessible then ever, before you could only access it if you had a desktop but today you can use your phone, tablet, laptop etc. Mobile devices have actually surpassed desktops in totals web visits. According to oberlo.com “53.74 percent of total we bisits are currently mobile, compared to 46.26 percept coming from desktop”. Many people are weary of the internet, wondering if someone, or the government controls the whole thing. That’s simply not true, the government can monitor what people search or post but they don’t own the whole thing, no one person owns the internet. The internet is made up of different stakeholders instead of a single person or group. The Internet was revolutionized by Tim Berners-Lee. He was the first person to write software for a browser. He was also willing to share the code for the World Wide Web and make it open sourced for everyone, and it remains that way today. A popular aspect of the internet early on that stays with it today are blogs. Blogs are different from regular websites because older posts stay at the bottom of the website, while new posts are boosted to the top, also blogs are usually made up of one person or a small group of people. Blogs are used for posting about peoples personal lives, random thoughts, how they feel about certain political issues etc. Today blogs have evolved from that some big companies use blogs but they’re usually more professional and post useful information. Youtube channels can also act as a blog. A YouTube channel is something a person makes where they can post whatever content they want as long as it fits the community guide lines. People often post tech tutorials, gaming videos or reviews. Often people start YouTube channels when they want to share something with a wide audience of people, or possibly start a career off of it. When the internet was first created you could only access it on desktop computers, developers didn’t have to worry about making a website work for smaller screens or devices like a phone. When mobile devices were finally able to run the internet developers had a new problem of designing websites for other devices besides computers. This challenge created a new term responsive web design, this term is used when a website is designed for different devices, and can change their layout based on what devices the websites being accessed on. Responsive web design is important because most people use the web from mobile devices. If a website can’t work on a mobile device what’s the point of having access to the web on your phone. Responsive web design is also important for people with disabilities, allowing them to have an easier time on the web (even though this technically falls under accessibility). One thing developers also have to be concerned about is SEO, it can be a good thing or a bad thing. SEO basically determines how likely people are to see your website when they search on things like Google. SEO is determined by bots, they determine what websites should appear on each page depending on the search, basically which website will be most helpful for your search. This can negatively affect websites for obvious reasons if you’re put at the bottom of a page you’re likely to get almost no interaction on your website. Dynamic content is something a lot of developers use for their website. Dynamic content is content on a website that changes based on the user. The content a person experiences is based on their personal data and history on the internet. An example of this can be chaining a phone number on the page based on a persons location. A popular thing for people to use on the internet are content manger systems. These systems allow someone to change a website without having any knowledge on coding. An example of this is the website we’re using for these discussion/blog posts. The name of this website is Cotc.edu, it’s used by students to post assignments like this.
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