Lesson 1 Flashcards
A method for accessing and providing information in various media via the Internet, allowing users to navigate information in a non-hierarchical and non-sequential manner.
World Wide Web (WWW)
the standard publishing language used to create web pages, defining the structure of information using various tags and attributes for display and hyperlinking.
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
An application software that locates and requests web pages from web servers, interprets the returned pages, and displays them to users.
Web Browser
A uniform naming scheme that specifies unique addresses for web servers, documents, and resources on the Internet, indicating where data can be found.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
A system that presents and relates information as interlinked documents, allowing readers to explore related documents through clickable hyperlinks.
Hypertext
Enumerate Popular Web Servers
- Apache
- iServer
- Microsoft Internet Information Server
- Macromedia ColdFusion
- IBM Web Sphere Studio
- Apple WebObject
It is the main page of a website, typically serving as an index or table of contents for other web pages and usually the first page users see when visiting a site.
Home Page
Standard rules governing how computers communicate with each other, such as TCP/IP, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP.
Protocol
A computer that runs application software to host web pages and respond to client requests made through web browsers via HTTP.
Web Server
A collection of related web pages from a specific individual, group, or organization, connected through hyperlinks and hosted by a web server in a specific domain.
Website
A computer that hosts web documents and provides information through web server applications, typically dedicated to running specific applications for better performance.
Server Computer
An electronic document containing various types of information, created and organized in a document-like format using HTML or other web authoring tools.
Web Page
An underlying protocol used to transmit information over the Web, supporting various Internet protocols and allowing access to a vast collection of information and services.
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
It is a distributed computing model where client computers access resources from server computers, which host and provide information.
Client/Server Technology
Enumerate Popular Web Browsers
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Netscape Navigator
- Opera
- Mozilla
- Lynx