World Wide Web & HTML Flashcards
Who developed the first browser? When?
Tim Berners-Lee. Browser developed December 1990.
What is the W3C? When was it founded?
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main standards organisation focused on developing protocols and guidelines that ensure continued growth of the WWW. It was founded on October 1st 1994.
When did Internet Explorer Launch?
15th August 1995
When did Google Launch as a company?
September 1998
What was the first object sold over the internet?
A broken laser pointer.
When was the first iPhone launched?
29th June 2007
What was in the first photo shared on social media Instagram?
Instagram founder Kevin Systrom posted a picture of a stray dog he met in Mexico with the caption ‘test’.
When was ChatGPT launched?
November 2022
What is the difference between hypertext and markup?
Hypertext: Link to a Web page or other form of media, not a physically displayed thing.
Markup: Annotates a document using encoded “tags” to indicate the structure of the document.
What is the DOM? Diagram.
Document Object Model-how the web browser represents a web page internally.
Why was the W3C created?
To keep the internet universal and avoid companies fencing off areas of the internet by creating their own tags.
Summarise the key advances of HTML.
HTML 3.2 - Improved browser compatibility
HTML 4 and CSS - Simplicity and Power
XHTML - Strengthening the building platform and stricter control
HTML5 - Additional semantic markup and media.
Name the 8 most used void HTML tags.
<br></br>,<col>,<hr>,<img></img>,<input></input>,<link></link>,<meta></meta>,<source></source>
What does GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, ICO, SVG stand for?
Graphics Interchange Format
Joint Photographic Expert Group Image
Portable Network Graphics
Web Picture Format
Microsoft Icon
Scalable Vector Graphics
What is the attribute and value for uppercase roman numerals, lowercase letters and numbers?
Uppercase Roman Numerals - type=”I”
Lowercase Letters - type=”a”
Numbers - type=”1”