FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

WEB BROWSERS TECHNOLOGY

WORLD WIDE WEB

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following describes the world wide web?
A
websites, web pages, links
B
two or more computers connected together
C
a worldwide network of computers
D
a very powerful computer that provides services
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The official description of the World-Wide Web (WWW, W3) is a “wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents".

Detailed explanation-2: -Servers and resources on the World Wide Web are identified and located through character strings called uniform resource locators (URLs). The original and still very common document type is a web page formatted in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -A web page (or webpage) is a hypertext document on the World Wide Web. Web pages are delivered by a web server to the user and displayed in a web browser. A website consists of many web pages linked together under a common domain name. The name “web page” is a metaphor of paper pages bound together into a book.

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