What I learnt today? That's an interesting question... Well, for the first part of the day, I found out how Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 worked, and I hope to God I'll never have to again... It was tedious as heck... But for this CDS... It's hard to explain. Interesting, fun, boring, distracting, I don't quite know how to describe it. We learnt about the different types of websites we can get information from, websites like blogs, forums, news websites, etc...
We also learnt about the purpose for which the websites might have been set up for. For information, advocacy, news, business, and for entertainment. We also learnt the definition and differences between the Internet and the World Wide Web.
We learnt what roles websites like blogs, wikis, forums, newsgroups, databases, and all other information archives play in our hunt for knowledge, and how more often than not, the information found on these websites are rather reliable, all because of the community spirit behind the website.
Even in some websites that teach people things that may or may not prove to be the beginnings of malicious workings like hackforums.net, where they teach you to hack into websites and the like, the information and teachings are usually the appropriate steps needed for a learner to begin. Of course, for hackforums.net, there is an unsaid, unwritten, and mutually agreed-on rule that these information and teachings are there for the simple use of information.
The teachings are never to be used for any malicious intent, and any who break these rules will feel the wrath of the others on the site, who usually are white-hat hackers, but will not hesitate to teach the rule-breaker a lesson.
It is this community spirit behind these information archives that ensure us that we will always have places where information can be found which is reliable.
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