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Understanding the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (www)

The World Wide Web is also known as the web, WWW or W3.

The Web is an Internet application (software) that uses the Internet as its network.

World Wide Web is the graphical, multimedia portion of the Internet.

The WWW is a collection of hyperlinked Web pages published on the Internet.

The World Wide Web is a global (an international) system of connected Web pages containing information such as, text, pictures, sound and video.

The WWW is hypertext based (i.e., it is able to access text and graphical data formatted for easy search, retrieval and display).

The Web is a part of the Internet. It is comprised of millions of Web pages. This huge collection of documents is stored on computers, called Hosts, around the world.

The documents may contain text, pictures, sound, small programs or forms to be completed by a user.

To view files on the Web, you need Web browsing Software like Google Chrome. This software can be used to view different locations on the Web or to explore the Web pages.

Web pages

Web pages are documents published by organizations and individuals who are interested in putting themselves on the Web.

Web pages can include text, pictures, sound and video.

Web page is a location on the WWW, usually a Web site.

The Web pages can also be found on company Intranets.

Intranet

An Intranet is an internal corporate network used in organizations to enable the sharing of documents among coworkers. It supports users inside one organization (usually on a LAN).

Intranet ; A private network within an organization. It can connect all types of computers within an organization.

Intranet has a private Web Server, which can be made available to the entire organization, individual department or to specific departmental workgroups.

An Intranet uses the infrastructure and standards of the Internet and can be connected to the Internet.

Note; Intranet applications are usually combined with the normal Web application of other organizations, but are hidden from those outside the organization.

Extranet

An Extranet works in much the same manner as an Intranet, but provides information to selected users outside the organization.

For example, a certain university can have an Internet library containing millions of articles, but only make it available to staff and students at colleges and universities within the country.

Web Site

A collection of Web pages belonging to an organization or individual. These organizations or individuals maintain the Website.

Web site; a group of related Web pages.

A Web site is a screen or a collection of screens that provide information in text or graphical form that can be viewed by Internet users by activating the appropriate icon or commands.

Web Browsers (Web browsing software).

A Web browser is a program that lets the user browse through information on (or surf) the Web. Information on the Web is structured into pages. Each page has a specific address that is used to locate and access information on that page.

A WWW browser program enables the user to either search for data by name or by specifying locations known as Uniform Resource Location (URL)



Browsing the Web

This is also known as Navigating or 'Surfing' the Web.

To browse is to navigate the Internet or the contents of your computer.

Browsing can also be defined as moving around and between Web pages.

Using a Web browsing software you can read documents, listen to music, watch videos, make purchases, participate in surveys, advertise products, do research, share interests and download files on the Web.

Web Hosting

A World Wide Web Server is a computer with programs that answer requests for documents from Clients (browsers) over the Internet. Files containing Web sites are placed on these servers.

A Host computer is any computer connected to the Internet and stores information that has been made available to the Web.

Web Address

An Address is the location of a file.

Each Web page in the world has a unique Internet address or location. Internet addresses are also called the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). E.g., the general URL for Davido Digital Solutions is www.davidodigitalsolutions.com

Search Engines / Search Services.

A Search engine is software that helps in locating information in the Web.

Search engine is a tool that searches the Web for information that you want to find.

The following are the various search engines;
  • Google.
  • Bing.
  • Yahoo!
  • Yandex.
  • DuckDuckGo.
  • Baidu.
  • Ask.com.

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