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Our Lady of the Rosary College 2007-2008 S3 Computer Literacy. Lesson 9 Web Browser Web-based Software. Mr. Ku Heung Chin. WWW. Email. File Sharing. Internet. Internet and WWW. Internet (1970s) a collection of interconnected computer networks i.e. network of networks
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Our Lady of the Rosary College2007-2008 S3 Computer Literacy Lesson 9 Web Browser Web-based Software Mr. Ku Heung Chin
WWW Email File Sharing Internet Internet and WWW • Internet (1970s) • a collection of interconnected computer networks • i.e. network of networks • WWW – World Wide Web (1990s) • WWW is one of the services accessible using the Internet.
WWW Basis • HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). • HyperText Markup Language (HTML). • Uniform Resource Locator (URL) How does it work?
World Wide Web Google’s web Server Yahoo’s web Server OLR’s web Server HTTP Request URL: http://www.google.com HTTP Response How WWW works? <HTML> <head><title> Google</title> </head> …….. <HTML> <head><title> Google</title> </head> ……..
Web-based Software • can be accessed using a Web browser only. • No need to installing any application software other than a Web browser. • Eamples: • Webmail • Google Docs • http://docs.google.com/ • Google Maps • http://maps.google.com/ • Google Translate • http://www.google.com/translate