WEB BROWSERS TECHNOLOGY
THE INTERNET
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a computer game
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a software program
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the part of the Internet that enables information-sharing via interconnected pages
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another name for the Internet
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Detailed explanation-1: -The World Wide Web–also known as the web, WWW or W3–refers to all the public websites or pages that users can access on their local computers and other devices through the internet. These pages and documents are interconnected by means of hyperlinks that users click on for information.
Detailed explanation-2: -The World Wide Web-commonly referred to as WWW, W3, or the Web-is a system of interconnected public webpages accessible through the Internet. The Web is not the same as the Internet: the Web is one of many applications built on top of the Internet.
Detailed explanation-3: -HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Allows for the retrieval of linked resources from across the web.
Detailed explanation-4: -The world wide web uses something called hypertext transfer protocol (the HTTP you’ve seen in web addresses) as the basis for communicating and distributing information.
Detailed explanation-5: -The program ran on a machine from NeXT, a computer company started by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, and included the Web’s three main elements-URLs, HTTP, and HTML-which Berners-Lee created. The concept of hypertext existed long before Berners-Lee introduced HTTP and HTML.