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Internet Glossary
World Wide Web
The exact definition for the World Wide Web (popularly known as the Web) varies, depending on whom
you ask. Three common descriptions are:
- A collection of resources (Gopher,
FTP, http,
telnet, Usenet,
WAIS and others) which can be accessed
via a web browser.
- A collection of hypertext files available on web servers.
- A set of specifications (protocols)
that allows the transmission of web pages over the Internet.
You can think of the Web as a worldwide collection of text and multimedia
files and other network services interconnected via a system of hypertext documents. HTTP (HyperText
Transfer Protocol) was created in 1990, at CERN,
the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, as a means for sharing scientific
data internationally, instantly, and inexpensively. With hypertext a word or phrase can contain
a link to other text. To achieve this
they developed a programming language called HTML, that allows you to easily link you to other
pages or network services on the Web.If you encounter a page
with a word that is highlighted in some way (usually in a different color and underlined), you
can click on that word and "go to" the page or resource to which connects. Of course, you are not
actually "going" anywhere when you do this, but rather, you are summoning the file or resource
that the link points to. This non-linear, non-hierarchical method of accessing information was a
breakthrough in information sharing and quickly became the major source of traffic on the Internet.
The basic elements of the World Wide Web are:
- HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) - the set of standards used by computers to communicate
and share files with each other.
- URL's (Uniform Resource Locator) - the "address" of a resource (file or diretory) on the Web.
- HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) - the programming "tags" added to text documents that turn
them into hypertext documents.
The World Wide Web Consortium at CERN continues to be the premier source of information about
the Web.
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