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Presented By Brian Watson

W. ORLD. W. IDE. Presented By Brian Watson. W. EB. CONTENT. What is it The Make-up Web vs Internet How it began How it works Browsers Hypertext Surfing. WHAT IS THE WEB?. Something a spider weaves A universal database of knowledge A global hypermedia network The internet.

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Presented By Brian Watson

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  1. W ORLD W IDE Presented By Brian Watson W EB

  2. CONTENT What is it The Make-up Web vs Internet How it began How it works Browsers Hypertext Surfing

  3. WHAT IS THE WEB? Something a spider weaves A universal database of knowledge A global hypermedia network The internet

  4. THE WEB Vs THE INTERNET Many people think the WWW is the same as the internet. This is false! The internet refers to the physical side of the global network - a giant mass of cables and computers The web is just one software application that utilises the internet

  5. MAKE-UP INTERNET WORLD WIDE WEB SMTP NNTP POP MAIL WEB E-MAIL ARCHIE FTP GOPHER IRC VERONICA NEWS

  6. HOW DID IT BEGIN? Proposed March 1989 Tim Berners-Lee (director W3C at MIT) European Particle Physics Laboratory (CERN) First web software end 1990 Demonstrated 1991 More people involved 1992 Since then…….

  7. HOW DOES IT WORK? World wide web Servers or HTTP servers To access the Web you run a BROWSER The browser can :- Read documents Access files by - FTP - NNTP - GOPHER etc. Follow links

  8. BROWSERS Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator Multilingual Organise Use links Hypertext Hypermedia

  9. HYPERTEXT AND HYPERMEDIA HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is the language used to create web documents HyperText is basically the same as regular text Contains links within text to other documents Hypermedia is hypertext with a difference Contains links to text and other media Hypermedia simply combines hypertext and multimedia

  10. WHAT’S ON THE WEB? Music xxx Shopping Virtually everything is available somewhere It is cheaper to publish on the web than on paper or other electronic media Education News Sport

  11. SURFING Many people these days talk of how they “surfed the net for hours” But what do they mean? Were they on Bondi Beach with a computer or looking at it on a computer?

  12. SURFING THE WEB Hypertext links called HYPERLINKS, can create a complex virtual web of connections If you were to go to a web page and follow all the links you could find your self on a free associative tour of information known as “SURFING THE WEB”

  13. FURTHER INFO If you want more information on the world wide web then go to:- http:/www.w3.org

  14. THE END

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