Friday, November 30, 2018

Chapter 1 Introduction to Internet and WWW


 Internet and WWW

Client
  A client is the requesting program in a client/server relationship, e.g, the user of a Web browser is effectively making client requests for pages from servers all over the Web.
Server
  In general, a server is a computer program that provides services to other computer programs in the same or other computers.
Web browser:
  The web client, called a browser, is the software that allows you to interact with information available on the Internet. e.g Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, MOSAIC.
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language):
  HTML is a tagging language used to compose documents that will be viewed by a web browser.
  It is a standard adopted so that no matter what computer platform someone is using, the web browser knows how to display the web document.  
Web Page:
  A mixture of text, graphics, sound and animation in the HTML format, to make information accessible in a easy to understand format using the Internet.
Web Site:
  A collection of web pages connected (linked) by Hypertext clickable links.
Web Site Storage/Hosting:
  After a web site is designed it must be stored on a computer that can be accessed through the Internet and the World-Wide Web. 

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