WWW/HTML Flashcards
What does WWW stand for?
World Wide Web
When was the WWW invented?
1989
Who invented WWW?
Tim Berners-Lee
What is the World Wide Web?
a way of accessing information on the internet
- Web pages are linked to one another via hypertext links
What is the client-server model?
describes the interactions of network computers
- Clients request information from servers
- Servers respond with the information
What are examples of servers?
- Web server HTTP
- File server FTP
What does HTTP stand for?
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
How is communication between client computers and web servers done?
by sending an HTTP request and receiving HTTP responses
What is a URL?
unique location of a response
- addy
What is HTML?
A document that describes hypertext
Do HTML, CSS and JavaScript work together?
yes
What is Enquire? And when was it founded?
- a centralized database using HTML
- 1980
What is the World Wide Web? And when was it founded?
- 1st web browser and web editor, also developed HTTP and URL
- 1990
What is Mosaic? And when was it founded?
- 1st GUI browser by students
- 1993
What is Netscape Navigator? And when was it founded?
- 1st commercial browser
- 1994
What is Internet Explorer? And when was it founded?
- By Microsoft
- 1995
What is Firefox? And when was it founded?
- by Mozilla
- 2002
What is Safari? And when was it founded?
- by Apple
- 2003
What is Google Chrome? And when was it founded?
- overtook Firefox, Safari and IE
- 2008
What is Edge? And when was it founded?
- Microsoft Windows 10
- 2016
What are examples of search engines?
Google, Bing and Yahoo
True or False
HTML defines the content of a web page as a text file with .HTML extension
True
What does <head> refer to?
contains information about the document
- authors
- keyword
What does <body> refer to?
Spacing within the HTML file typically does not affect its correctness or appearance
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