THE WEB AND THE INTERNET

• Web - consists of

  information organized into Web pages

  containing text and graphic images.
• Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web
• Web 1.0:

  • It is an old internet that only allows people to read from the internet
  • Referred to as an "information portal"
• Web 2.0:

  • New generation of Web services and applications with an increasing emphasis on human collaboration
  • Features dynamic pages
• Folksonomy - categorize and classify/arrange information through tagging
• Rich User Interface:

  • Content is dynamic and responsive
  • show local content
• User Participation - Besides the owner, others can contribute content through comments, reviews, and evaluations
• Long Tail - subscribing to a data plan
• Social Networking - to stay connected with friends and family
• Blogs are informational websites with diary-style text entries (posts)
• Wikis - edited and managed by their own audience
• Video Sharing Sites allow people to upload and share their videos
• Semantic Web - framework for data sharing and reuse
• Web 3.0 name was suggested by John Markoff
• Servers are computer programs that provide services to other computer programs
• Internet is the largest computer network in the world connecting billions of computer users
• In 1982, the word internet started
• IP Address is a numerical label that identifies a network device
• Browser - used to look for information
• Domain Name System - phonebook of the internet
• Internet Service Provider - accessing, using, or participating in the internet
• HTML - is a coding language
• home page - main page
• web site - collection of linked Web pages
• dynamic page - Allows the user to interact with the page

  • collaborate and share information online
• January 2, 1969 - Advanced Research Project Agency
• URL - is a web address used to connect to a remote resource
• HTTP - standard of web pages. should work correctly in a web browser.
• Encryption - is the mathematical scrambling of data. private data into

  meaningless gobbledygook
• Web Bot - A term that applies to programs/applets
• HTTPS

  This indicates that the web page has a special layer of encryption
• Search Engine - users search for information on the

  web by using keywords or phrases.
• Router - traffic cop for network signals
• Bit - is a single digit in the binary numbering system.
• Regional ISP – internet access to a specific geographic area.
• National ISP – internet access in cities and towns nationwide.
• Proxy Server – an intermediary between an endpoint device
• Mail Server –receives incoming e-mail , forward outgoing e-mail for delivery.
• File Server – central storage and management of data files
• Policy Server – policy–based network tracking and control of files.