When and why did the Internet and World Wide Web arise? How do web sites work? What’s next? The course will highlight milestones in the 40+ year history of the Internet (20 years for the Web), examine underlying technologies & applications, and discuss emerging trends and issues. The course will include lectures, web videos, live web sites and Q&A. Internet required for student access to course materials. More about course topics below.
About the Instructor
Steve Weyer discovered his computer obsession at Seattle's 1962 World's Fair, wrote his first programs in 1968, and first accessed the Internet (then, Arpanet) at Stanford University in 1972.
During the 1970s and 1980s in Silicon Valley, he did Research&Development at Stanford, Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), Atari, Hewlett-Packard and Apple on programming languages, education environments, electronic books and artificial intelligence. During the 1990s on the East Coast, Steve consulted on enabling software technologies for pharmaceutical research; in 1996, he developed a web browser: “Newt’s Cape” (for the Newton MessagePad), and other applications for handhelds and early smartphones.
After Steve moved to Ashland in 2006 (after first visiting in mid-70s), he’s been enjoying non-technical activities such as hiking, biking, reading, theater, improv comedy, volunteering, and OLLI classes. At OLLI, Steve has offered CROSSWORDS and YOU and E-books and an Internet Issues Community Lecture.
Course Topics
The original course (in 2010 and 2011) was overly broad.
I am considering a subset of the course that would focus on History, and cover a few selected technologies and social issues.
As time permits (and if there's enough interest), I will reuse and update previous pages, and submit a course proposal.
?2014 Spring: Ashland; 2011 Winter; Medford; 2010 Fall; Ashland
Steve Weyer discovered his computer obsession at Seattle's 1962 World's Fair, wrote his first programs in 1968, and first accessed the Internet (then, Arpanet) at Stanford University in 1972.