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Internet and Web History

Internet and Web History. Origins. Internet vs. World Wide Web. The internet is the hardware that creates the massive worldwide network. Computers, cables, telephone wires, high-speed communication lines. The internet is a inter-connected collection of many smaller networks.

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Internet and Web History

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  1. Internet and Web History Origins

  2. Internet vs. World Wide Web • The internet is the hardware that creates the massive worldwide network. Computers, cables, telephone wires, high-speed communication lines. The internet is a inter-connected collection of many smaller networks. • The Web is the software that sends information along the internet’s hardware. The web stores files: Text, sound, graphics, video, etc.

  3. What came first the Internet or the Web? • The U.S. Government through the U.S. Department of Defensein the 1960s developed a network of computers with various universities and defense contractors. • The research project was named ARPANET(Advanced Research Projects Agency)

  4. What came first the Internet or the Web? • In 1990, a scientist named Tim Berners-Lee created the first GUI (graphical-user interface) browser, which we know as the World Wide Web. This GUI Browser allowed users to view web page content. • By 1993, this technology became available for free. • In1994, the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C was founded. www.w3.org

  5. How a Web Page Works • The most basic component of the web is a simple <html> web page. • Web browser software interprets <html> tags to display the web pages on a computer screen. • URL – Uniform Resource Locator – This is the technical name for a web address: http://www.google.com

  6. Internet Protocols • Protocol Denied:A set of rules and procedures that specify how data are formatted and transmitted between computer systems. • ICP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol; standard for transmitting data over networks. • http: Hypertext Transfer Protocol; HTTP defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. • FIP: File Transfer Protocol; the protocol for exchanging files over the Internet

  7. First Web Browser . . . . . . . • In1993, the first graphical web browserwas released; it was called mosaic. Mosaic was developed by Joseph Hardin and Dave Thompson at the (National Center for Supercomputer Applications), a research institute at the University of Illinois.

  8. More Internet Terms • A web saver or a host is a computer that stores and delivers web pages and other files. A computer that has web server softwareand is connected to the internet can act as a web server. • Publishing a website is the copying web pages and other files to a web server. Once the page is published, anyone can access it with an internet connection.

  9. Web Sites Types • Internet– public – anyone can use it. • Intarnet– private network - Members or Employees within an organization • Extranet– network private – Business partners and customers (outside of a company)

  10. HTML Hypertext Markup Language • <html> </html> • <head> </head> • <title> </title> • <body> </body> 4 basic tags in every HTML Page

  11. To create a web page in HTML, use a Text Editor

  12. Web Site Planning • plan your website – What are your goals with the website? What do you want to accomplish with the site? Who is your target audience? • Analyze – Determine what tasks you want your users to perform. What content do you want in our site?

  13. Web Site Planning (con’t) Design and development of your website - After you decide what the content will be, you should organize the material: Text, images, videos, sounds, etc.

  14. Organizational structures: 1) Linear -- Web pages in a straight line 2) Hierarchical -- Web pages in a tree-like structure 3) Webbed -- No set organization 4) Broad – Home page is the main/index page and all pages are linked to the home page.

  15. Organizational structures: (can't) 5) Deep- This kind of website has many levels of pages, requiring lots of clicking.

  16. Assignments • Go to my Google Site for WPD http://sites.google.com/site/webpagedesignsite/ • Download the internet assignments; save them on your server space.

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