Webhunt #1

This webhunt helped me to better understand the ways that computer technologies benefit society. I was definitely surprised by the abundancy of resources available through the google website alone, such as google books, scholar, and groups. I was also surprised with the various hardware available for the disabled, such as the refreshable braille display.

The section that I was most interested in during this Webhunt was History, Culture and Art. The distribution and availability of such resources in history, culture and art have definitely become more efficient with computer technology. Being able to complete this webhunt alone, is proof towards this very aspect. Without computer, I would have never been able to sit at home and identify what "digital medievalists" are, or how to translate my name into "cuneiform". Instead, I most likely would have made a trip to the library to do some book research on these topics. On a much wider scale, computer technology has made information that was once exclusive, available to people all around the world. For example, rather than having to travel all the way to France to learn about the Les tres riches heures du Duc de Berry, we can now learn about it online and see it online as well.

The website that I relied on the most to search for the webhunt answers was Google.com; however, other relevant websites included wikipedia.org and the databases available to CSUF students from the Pollack Library website. These websites are very useful to anyone doing research on any particular subject because they offer an abundancy of information in a single place. Although wikipedia.org may not be as reliable a source since its pages are created and edited by everyday people, it does offer various resources and links at the end of their articles that one can go to to examine other opinions on the subject being researched.