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Understanding the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee. It is a system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed via the Internet. The objective behind inventing the WWW was to combine recent computer technologies, data networks, and hypertext into a user-friendly and effective global information system. The WWW consists of clients/browsers, servers, and the Internet which allow users to access hypertext documents containing text, images, audio, and video through URLs.

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Understanding the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee. It is a system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed via the Internet. The objective behind inventing the WWW was to combine recent computer technologies, data networks, and hypertext into a user-friendly and effective global information system. The WWW consists of clients/browsers, servers, and the Internet which allow users to access hypertext documents containing text, images, audio, and video through URLs.

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World Wide Web

[Link] in 1989
[Link] by Tim Berners lee
[Link] of HTTP
World wide web
The world wide web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed
Via the internet . It is a service on the internet that uses internet infrastructure.
www is a huge client server system consisting millions clients and servers
connected together . Each server maintains a collection of documents and they
can be accessed using a reference called uniform resource locator (URL) . It
contains text , images , audio , video and other multimedia content . It may
also contain hyperlinks to documents on different servers .
features of WWW
[Link] information system
[Link] platform
[Link] source
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Objective of WWW
The objective behind the invention of WWW was to combine recent computer
Technologies , data networks and hypertext into a user friendly and effective
global information system
Advantages of WWW
[Link] free information
[Link] cost of initial connection
[Link] interactive communication
[Link] the exchange of huge volumes of data
[Link] media
disadvantages
[Link] and excess information
[Link] to filter
[Link] quality control over available data
[Link] regulation
WWW components
Structural components
[Link] / browsers
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Semantic components
[Link] text transfer protocol (HTTP)
[Link] text markup language(HTML)
[Link] resource identifiers(URIs)
Internet and WWW
Difference
Evolution of WWW
Web 1.0
• Static web pages
• Brochure ware
• Mostly publishing
• No communities
Web 2.0
• Social media
• Keyword search
• Rich user experience
• tagging
Web 3.0
• Highly mobile
• Open id
• Semantic search
• Micro blogging
HTTP
• Stands for hyper text transfer protocol
• This is a defined language which computers can use to talk to each
other
HTML
[Link] is a markup language
[Link] for hyper text markup language
[Link] called web pages
URI
• Stands for uniform resource identifier
• Example ;your name
• Here the string staring with http
Importance of WWW
• Communication
• Unlimited knowledge
• Speed up tasks
• E learning
• Online business
• Shopping
• Personal development

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