Some key terms that need to be undertood:
The Internet: is a vast network of networks connecting innumerable computers private, public, institutional, academic and governmental via electronic, wireless, and fibre-optic connections into one massive super-network. It is the infrastructure that makes the World Wide Web and electronic mail possible.
WWW: If the internet is the infrastructure then the WWW is a service that uses that infrastructure. It is a system of web pages connected by hypertext links. One either follows a link or types in a Universal Resource Locator (URL) address. The computer, via the web browser and web server, finds and gets the corresponding page from its networked host.
Hypertext is the text that appears on a web page. It contains links (hyperlinks) to other documents on the web that are accessible by clicking the hypertext. It is a key constituent of the web’s architecture.
HTML Hyper Text Mark Up Language. Describes the content of web pages it is not a programming language it is a mark up language that consists of mark up tags that usually come in pairs: a start tag and an end tag that are in <> brackets.
The Internet: is a vast network of networks connecting innumerable computers private, public, institutional, academic and governmental via electronic, wireless, and fibre-optic connections into one massive super-network. It is the infrastructure that makes the World Wide Web and electronic mail possible.
WWW: If the internet is the infrastructure then the WWW is a service that uses that infrastructure. It is a system of web pages connected by hypertext links. One either follows a link or types in a Universal Resource Locator (URL) address. The computer, via the web browser and web server, finds and gets the corresponding page from its networked host.
Hypertext is the text that appears on a web page. It contains links (hyperlinks) to other documents on the web that are accessible by clicking the hypertext. It is a key constituent of the web’s architecture.
HTML Hyper Text Mark Up Language. Describes the content of web pages it is not a programming language it is a mark up language that consists of mark up tags that usually come in pairs: a start tag and an end tag that are in <> brackets.
