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What IS the Web?

What IS the Web?. Mrs. Wilson Internet Basics & Beyond. World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is a collection of electronic documents that are linked together like a spider web. These documents are stored on computers called servers located around the world.

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What IS the Web?

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  1. What IS the Web? Mrs. Wilson Internet Basics & Beyond

  2. World Wide Web • The World Wide Web is a collection of electronic documents that are linked together like a spider web. • These documents are stored on computers called servers located around the world. • The Web has evolved into a global electronic publishing medium and increasingly, a medium for conducting electronic commerce.

  3. WWW vs. the Internet • Two terms are not synonymous. • Two separate but related things.

  4. Internet • Massive “Network of Networks” • Connects millions of computers • Information travels via a variety of languages called protocols • Allows computers to communicate • E-mail • IM • FTP

  5. WWW • Way of accessing information • Built on top of the Internet • Uses HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) • Uses browsers and has hyperlinks, video, graphics, sound

  6. The Web Physically Consists of • Your personal computer • Web browser software • Connection to an Internet service provider • Computers called servers that host digital data, and routers and switches to direct the flow of information

  7. Question:This is a huge collection of computers around the world, which are all linked so that they can share information.

  8. Answer: • The Internet

  9. Question:This is the collection of millions of pages of information on the Internet.

  10. Answer: • The World Wide Web

  11. Question:These are used to link the pages of information together.

  12. Answer: • Hyperlinks

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