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The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web or www born in the early 90s in Switzerland. Its role is to sort and distribute the information that exists on the internet.

 

The World Wide Web is based on hypertext, ie pages where you can insert hyperlinks. These lead the user to a web page to another or to another point of that web.

There are scripts for pages called "markup language". The most used is HTML or "Hyper Text Markup Language" (Hypertext Markup Language). With this script commands are given for information to be presented in one way or another on the websites. The marks ("tags" or labels) allow to format the text and combine it with other multimedia elements. This page is an HTML hypertext.

HTTP protocol and addressing URL

Address Bar

The HTTP protocol is created for hypertext, hyperlinks and hypermedia fulfill their function. It stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol or Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Operates on four basic steps: the connection, the request, response and disconnection. It is considered a stateless protocol because it stores information about the transactions you do.

The URL address used to name the location of the information you want to access the internet through a standard set of characters. Each of information resources on the network has a unique URL. In this direction the browser accesses the page and we sampled.

Browsers and search engines

To surf the Internet a program that can access web pages is needed. These programs are called browsers and the best known are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome.

Web pages can accommodate all kinds of information and can contain text, video, images, or different applications. To find the required data if you do not know the URL we will use the search servers or browsers. The best known are Google and Yahoo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web