Monday 4 April 2011

World Wide Web

Browser
A browser is an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the world wide web. The world browser seems to have originated prior to the web as a generic term for user interfaces that let you browse test files online. By the time the first web browser with graphical user interface was generally available Mosaic, in 1993 the term seemed to apply to web content too.


URL
URL ( Uniform Resource Locator , previously Universal Resource Locator)- pronounced YU-AHR-EHL or in some quarters, UHRL is the address of a file(resource) accessible on the internet. The type of file or resource depends on the internet application protocol.

What is Web Site?
A Web site is a related collection of world wide web files that includes a beginning file called a home page.A company or an individual tells you how to get to their Web site by giving you the address of their home page. From the home page, you can get to all other pages on their site.

Who Invented the Web & Why?
CERN is a meeting place for physicists from all over the world, who collaborate on  complex physics, engineering and information handling projects, Thus, the need for the WWW system arose from the geographical dispersion of large collaborations, and the fast turnover the fellows,students and visiting scientists, Who had to get up the speed on projects and leave a lasting contribution before leaving.





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