WWW & Web Browsing Flashcards
It is the leading information retrieval service of the Internet (the worldwide computer network)
Internet based global information system. It makes available multimedia information from over 4 million computers around the world.
World Wide Web
Allows the user to select a word from text and and thereby access other documents that contain additional information pertaining to that word.
Hypertext
Documents feature links to images, sounds, animations, and movies.
Hypermedia
Are computer programs that store and transmit documents to other computers on the network when asked to.
Servers
Are programs that request documents from a server as the user asks for them.
Clients
It is what you see through your browser by scrolling the window up and down.
Webpage
It is usually fairly self-contained, with pages created and maintained by the same authors and often stored on a single computer. The pages may link to other pages that are not part of that site.
Website
Contains information that does not change. It remains the same, or static, for every viewer of the site.
Static Website
Contains information that changes, depending on the viewer of the site, the time of the day, the time zone, the native language of the country the viewer is in or many other factors.
Can contain client side scripting or server-side scripting to generate the changing content, or a combination of both scripting types.
Dynamic Website
It is the organization of information units into connected associations that a user can choose to make.
It was the main concept that led to the invention of the WWW, which is, after all, nothing more (or less) than an enormous amount of information content connected by an enormous number of —— links.
Hypertext
It is a word, phrase, or image that you can click on to jump to a new document or a new section within the current document.
Found in nearly all Web pages, allowing users to click their way from page to page.
Hyperlinks
It is a software application used to enable computer users to locate and access web pages.
Web Browser
code that allows us to see images, text videos and listen to audios on websites, along with hyperlinks that let us travel to different web pages.
HTML (Hypertext MarkUp Language)
Some Familiar Common Web Browsers
Mozilla FireFox
Google Chrome
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Brave
Opera
It is a web-based tool that enables users to locate information on the World Wide Web.
It utilize automated software applications (referred to as robots, bots, or spiders) that travel along the Web, following links from page to page, site to site.
Search Engine
Popular Search Engine
Google
Yahoo
Alta Vista
HotBot
WebCrawler
InfoSeek
Lycos
It is the undisputed king of web search.
It is fast, relevant, and the largest single catalogue of Web pages available today.
It is a search engine, a news aggregator, a shopping center, an email box, a travel directory, a horoscope and games center, and more.
Yahoo
It was created by the research facility of Digital Electronics Corporation(DEC) of USA. This search engine has a spider called scooter that traverses the web and Usenet newsgroups.
Alta Vista
It is a web search engine currently owned by Lycos. This search engine is most suitable for searching specific words or phrases.
Contains a text box for the users to enter their query string, and a list box to choose the appropriate rule, like all words, any words, or exact phrases.
Primarily used for fine-tunning your search.
HotBot
It is a metasearch engine that blends the top search results from Google Search and Yahoo! Search.
It was originally a separate search engine with its own database, and displayed advertising results in separate areas of the page.
WebCrawler
It is a popular search engine with a robot that retrieves HTML and PDF documents. It indexes full text and generates a short summary of each document.
Infoseek
Contains 66 million pages in its database. This search engine has a robot that uses heuristics to navigate the web and build a searchable index. F
Lycos
Every Web page has a unique address called a ___ which identifies where it is located on the Web.
The basic parts of a it often provide “clues” to where a web page originates and who might be responsible for the information at that page or site.
It is an entire set of directions, and it contains extremely detailed information.
URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
URLs have three basic parts
Protocol
Server Name
Resource ID
It identifies the method (set of rules) by which the resource is transmitted.
Protocol
It identifies the method (set of rules) by which the resource is transmitted.
It identifies which company, agency or organization may be either directly responsible for the information, or is simply providing the computer space where the information is stored.
Server
Computers that store and “serve up” Web pages are called
Remote Servers
The server name always ends with a dot and a three-letter or two-letter extension called ——-.
It is the New computer users often confuse ——— with universal resource locators, or URLs, and Internet Protocol, or IP, addresses.
Domain Name
It is the name of the file for the page and any directories or subdirectories under which it is stored on the specified computer.
Resource ID
It is the opening domain page for any web site that provides links to all of the other pages on the site
Homepage
It takes the form of a dotted-quad number (numerical instructions), such as 128.175.13.92.
When we use domain names to access a website or online service, we are using a human readable shortcut which corresponds with the server’s ——- .
IP Address
It is the most common line we hear from any person, whether he is a student, professional or a homemaker.
Surfing the Web
Is creating a comfortable, transparent, and cheap interaction between government and its respective citizens, government and business enterprises and relationship between governments.
E-Government
Four Domains of E-Government
Governance
Information and Communication Technology(ICT)
Business Process Reengineering( BPR)
E-citizen.
Primary Deliver Models of E-Government
Government-to-Citizen
Government-to-Consumer (G2C)
Government-to-Business (G2B)
Government-to-Government (G2G)
Government-to-Employees (G2E)
