skateboarding

My presentation is going to be about skateboarding, there will be pictures and videos about famous skaters such as rodney mullen, and steve caballero. But you'll have to wait till' next week to find out!

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Boring Stuff: Intranet vs World Wide Web

An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet Protocol technologies to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system within that organization. The term is used in contrast to internet, a network between organizations, and instead refers to a network within an organization. Sometimes the term refers only to the organization's internal website, but may be a more extensive part of the organization's information technology infrastructure. It may host multiple private websites and constitute an important component and focal point of internal communication and collaboration.

The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them by via hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, English engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.  At CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau proposed in 1990 to use "HyperText ... to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and publicly introduced the project in December.

"The World-Wide Web (W3) was developed to be a pool of human knowledge, and human culture, which would allow collaborators in remote sites to share their ideas and all aspects of a common project.

The history of Web Browsers

In the 1990 the first ever web browser called 'WorldWideWeb' was created by Tim Berners-Lee, which was later renamed 'Nexus'. It was written with the NeXT computer. This browser was the official first ever browser but never eally cought on with the public, and was later forgotten as NCSA Mocaic was created in january 94'. The aim of this browser was to make the internet easiaer and more accessible to the average person, and would not require a lot of teaching to use. 

Why shouldn't skate board down a hill with nothing but a wet-suit peeled down to your waist...

It was a sunny afternoon, i was just walking back from the sea with a body board in my hand and a skateboard in the other. I stood at the top of a huge, steep country lane with a large sign saying '14%', indicating the incline of the road. I handed my body bord to my friend who was standing next to me, and before he could say anything I was already on my way down. I started gaining speed rapidly, on part of me was saying jump off, and the other was saying 'Let's keep going!'. It got to a point about 30 seconds after I started going down that I started panicking because I was going about thirty miles per hour and still gaining speed, without even thinking, almost like an instinct i jumped off on to my feet. Obvously I was going too fast to run and tripped, before I knew it I got a glimpse of my arms leaping in front of me, before smahing into the hard concrete of the road. To this day I'm still not exactly sure of what happened, all I remember was jumping straight to my feet, and then having the suddnen realisation that my hip was hacked up, with bits of skin and flesh hanging off it, and blood running down my wet-suit. I wasn't thinking properly because I was in so much shock, and I had so much adrenaline pumping through my system, so I grabbed my board and decided to skateboard home because I was so embaressed about my stupidity. I was about three quaters of the way home after about five minutes when the pain hit me, I looked at my feet and saw my toe quite badly cut, and blood on my board from not only my feet but my hip. I also noticed that about ten small lumps of grit stuck in the heels of both my feet. What was most worrying was I still hadn't really noticed how badly hurt I was until I notice the faces of the people passing past in their cars, all gasping and shocked. The pain was worst on the last fifty meters of the journey home, the pain was so agganising that I couldn't stop myself from shouting. When I reached my grandmothers house I got taken to A & E where I spent four hours getting patched up. An experiance I will never forget, but of course it hasn't stopped me from getting back on my board :)