Submodule 1.1: Introduction to WEB
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| Course: | HTML |
| Book: | Submodule 1.1: Introduction to WEB |
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| Date: | Thursday, 21 November 2024, 5:12 PM |
Description
- Internet
- WEB
What is Internet?
Internet is:
a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
We use the Internet to communicate via email ( SMTP protocol), to visit different sites (HTTP protocol) to upload our files (FTP protocol) etc.
What is WWW?
Key words
- Web server is a computer that stores files and transfers them to the end-user's device (HTTP protocol).
- Web browser is a software program that you use to access the internet and view web pages on your computer. This program translates the code that receives from the web server to text, images, audio video, links etc.
- URL is the global address of documents and resources on the World Wide Web.
The people
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. In the following video describes the future of the web.
Berners-Lee is the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the continued development of the Web.