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WEEK: 4
TOPIC: INTRODUCTION TO WORLD WIDE WEB II
CONTENT: (a) Basic Terminologies of www (b) Protocols
SUB-TOPIC 1: Basic Terminologies
- WWW: The word World Wide Web or simply put a web is a means of accessing, organizing, and moving through the information over the internet. It is the user friendly ‘point-and –click way of navigating data stored on computers connected to the internet facilitated by the hypertext that provides links between one website and the another.
- Website: A website is a collection of documents of pages, the first of which is called HOME PAGE. It is the opening page of an internet website. It also refers to someone’s personal website on the internet, which may contain the owner’s personal data, photograph or contact information
- Protocol: This is a set of technical rules for the transmission and receipt of information among computers in the network.
- Uniform Resource Locator: This refers to an internet address. It is an address identifying the location of a file on the internet. It consists of the protocol, the computer on which the file is located and the file’s location on that computer. It can be compared to an address where a particular document resides. An example is http/www.rhemabooks.com/publication/computer studies.html
- Web Page: A webpage is a unit of a website. It is like a page or chapter in a book, which gives concise information on an aspect of the entire website. Each webpage within a website is a file, which has its own uniform resource locator (URL).
- Hypertext: This is a text displayed on a computer or other electronic devices with references (hyperlink) to other texts that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click or key press sequence.
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