Web Beginner Notes 1

What is WWW?
www (World Wide web)
The World Wide Web is often referred to as
The web is a network of computers all over the world
All computers in the WEB can communicate with each other
All of these computers use a communication standard called HTTP

How does WWW work?
Web information is stored in a document called a Web page
A Web page is stored on a computer called a Web server
The computer that reads the Web page is called the Web client
Web client to view Web pages through a program called a browser
The main browsers have Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox

How does the browser read the page?
A browser can read a Web page on a server with a single request
A request is a standard HTTP request that contains a page address
The page address looks like this: http://www.someone.com/page.htm

WHO develops web standards?
Web standards are not developed by Netscape or Microsoft
The web's rule-making body is the
The World Wide Web Consortium refers to www Wide Consortium
A wide range of specifications into web standards
The most core Web standards are HTML, CSS, XML
The latest HTML standard is XHTML 1.0

The organization, established in 1994, aims to inspire the full potential of the web world by promoting the development of generic protocols and ensuring their universal type.