Don’t Frant, It’s Still More Complex…

AND we are back.

WELL, what did we learn?

The simplest way to answer that is to say, the internet got even more complex.

We have covered multiple ways of learning from the internet, to how the internet uses advertising as a way for clicks, to even how we can evolve from falling into the traps and laterally escape out and push truth through our own investigate skills like SIFT and CRAAP. Yet, behind each mind boggling, tongue twisting, intriguing post, they all fall under the same format: HTML.

I don’t Know if I’m Ready to be Bilingual…

So what is this acronym? HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. Let me tell you, it is a language of its own. Before HTML we learned a smaller style of Coding, Markdown, and while the two hold similar attributes (like how <h1> is equivalent to #) they are primarily very different types of languages.

So, what is the point of HTML? Well, let’s say it is the foundation to your house. HTML is the infrastructure that hold your glorious home together, but you don’t necessarily see it. Sure when you walk inside you can see your walls, maybe outlets, but that is kinda like seeing the text, or the chapter headings, or even the title. Within it, there is wiring, insulation, pallets, etc. and the same goes for HTML. You see the heading sizes, where paragraphs open and end, URL links and importations that you only notice as clickable text, etc.

Overall, a pretty cool look into something “new” right? Well it gets even more complex. CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, and is the paint on the wall, literally. Just as you coat your walls full of paint, you do the same using CSS. It is the visual side. Now, unlike paint on a wall, you can see the painter and the tub of paint, but CSS is imbedded within HTML, a language within a language if you wish to call it that way.

We are a world of Dumbies.

Why dive into all of that amazing new head pounding information without a beautiful couple articles telling us we aren’t even prepared to use it, right?

Monica Chin, author of “File not Found”, and Karl Stolley, author of “The Lo-Fi Manifesto”, offer two representations of organization. The internet is a vast place, and you can easily lose things in the mist of trying to get multiple articles/papers done. Heck, I’ve done it, yet our generation, ones who are supposed to be in tune with technological advancements and frontiers, yet aren’t because we aren’t taught it, we just simply live with it. This can cause loads of stress, and a lot of unorganized laptops because unless someone takes the time to file it themselves, we aren’t going to do it.

I bring this up simply to show that as advanced technology is, it took me until my senior year of college to finally sit and look at what a article truly looks like behind my screen and why it is so important to learn it. The Manifesto is a perfect example. Stolley wrote it in HTML, not in a prebuilt interface that he could access as I am doing right now. Learning how the internet works only brings you one step closer to why you need to know.