GETTING STARTED WITH HTML5 Flashcards
What is network
A network is a structure in which information
and services are shared among devices
What is a host or a node?
A host or a node can be any device that is
capable of sending and/or receiving data
electronically
What is a server
A server is a host that provides information or a service to other devices on the network
What is a client
A computer or other device that receives a service is called a client
clients access information
provided by one or more users in a
client-server network
What is LAN
Local area network - A network confined to a small geographic area, such as within a building or department
What is a network confined to a small
geographic area, such as within a building or department?
Local area network
What is WAN?
Wide Area Network
A network that covers a wide area, such as
several buildings or cities, is called a
Wide Area Network
laid, the foundations for the World
Wide Web, or the Web, in 1989
Timothy Berners-Lee and other researchers
developed a system of interconnected
hypertext documents that allowed their users to
easily navigate from one topic to another
Timothy Berners-Lee and other researchers at the CERN nuclear research facility near Geneva, Switzerland
a method of organization in which
data sources are interconnected through a series of links or hyperlinks that users can activate to jump from one piece of information to another
Hypertext
Each document on the web is referred to as a
Web page
Web pages are stored on
Web server
Documents on the web are accessed through a software program called a
Web browser
A Web page is a text file written in
HTML