What is the World Wide
Web what makes it work?
The WWW
incorporates all of the Internet services above and much more. You can retrieve
documents, view images, animation, and video, listen to sound files, speak hear
voice, and view programs that run on practically any software in the world,
providing your computer has the hardware and software to do these things.
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hen you log onto the Internet using a web browser (e.g Internet
Explorer, Fire Fox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Safari), you are viewing
documents on the World Wide Web. The basic foundation on which the WWW function
is the programming language called HTML. It is HTML and other programming
imbedded within HTNL that make possible hypertext. Hypertext. Hypertext is the
ability to have web pages containing links, which are areas in a page or
buttons or graphics on which you can click your mouse button to retrieve
another document into your computer. Thos “click ability” using Hypertext links
is the feature, which is unique and revolutionary about the web
How do Hypertext links
work?
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Every document
or file or site or movie or sound file or anything you find on the Web has
unique URL (uniform resource locator) that identifies what computer the thing is on,
where it is within that computer, and its specific file name. (More explanation
on the structure of URLs) . Every Hypertext link on every web page in the world
contains one of the URLs. When you click on a link of any kind on a web page,
you send a request to retrieve the unique document on some computer in the
world that is uniquely identified by that URLs. URLs are like addresses of web pages. A whole cluster of
internationally accepted standards (such as TCP/IP and HTML), make possible
this global information retrieval phenomenon that transcends all political
language
