Information Society Flashcards
Meaning of URL
Uniform Resource Locator
Text which contains links to the other texts or information
Hypertext
It is made up of multiple web resources with a common theme, a common domain name, or both.
Website
The development of the printing press, which may be regarded as the beginning of a true revolution, could be dated to what century?
15th century
________, from the Latin word scire (meaning to know), is one kind of knowledge the Greek wanted to understand.
Science
A term used for hypertext which is not constrained to
be text. It can include graphics, video and sound
Hypermedia
The first web browser was created in what year?
1990
Commonly known as the Web, it is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators, which may be interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible over the internet.
World Wide Web (WWW)
________ may be any type of downloaded media, but ________ are hypertext media that have been formatted in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
Web resources, webpages
Plato’s principle of ________ refers to the underlying
unity among diverse beings in the natural world.
“One and the Many”
Mathematics as the language of nature was the great contribution of who?
Isaac Newton
______ was the name of the browser that helped to get the World Wide Web popular, and ______ was the brand of the computer where the first web site was published.
Mosaic, Next
The resources of the WWW may be accessed by users by a software application called a ________.
Web browser
He coined the term “hypertext” in 1965.
Ted Nelson
English scientist _________ invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
Tim Berners-Lee
