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The document discusses the World Wide Web and related technologies. It defines key terms like the Internet, websites, web browsers, web servers, URLs, and search engines. It also covers instant messaging, blogs, and how a web browser retrieves web pages from a web server over the Internet using URLs. The overall goal is to compare and contrast the Internet and the World Wide Web, describe general web processing, and define basic HTML and XML documents.

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Computer Science

The document discusses the World Wide Web and related technologies. It defines key terms like the Internet, websites, web browsers, web servers, URLs, and search engines. It also covers instant messaging, blogs, and how a web browser retrieves web pages from a web server over the Internet using URLs. The overall goal is to compare and contrast the Internet and the World Wide Web, describe general web processing, and define basic HTML and XML documents.

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Chapter 16 The World Wide Web

Chapter Goals
Compare and contrast the Internet and the World Wide Web Describe general Web processing

Write basic HTML documents


Describe several specific HTML tags and their purposes
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Chapter Goals
Describe the processing of Java applets and Java server pages Compare and contrast HTML and XML

Define basic XML documents and their corresponding DTDs


Explain how XML documents are viewed
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The World Wide Web


The Web

An infrastructure of information combined and the network software used to access it


Web page A document that contains or references various kinds of data Links A connection between one web page and another
What are the links used for?
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The World Wide Web


Website

A collection of related web pages


Web browser A software tool that retrieves and displays eb pages Web server

A computer set up to respond to requests for web pages


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The World Wide Web


Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

A standard way of specifying the location of a Web page, containing the hostname, "/", and a file

What is the relationship between the Internet and the Web?

The World Wide Web

Figure 16.1 A browser retrieving a Web page 7

Why is the expression "visiting a website" confusing?

Search Engines
Search Engine A website that helps you find other websites

Instant Messaging
Instant messaging (IM) An application that allows people to send and receive messages in real time
Both sender and receiver must have an IM running Most IM applications use a proprietary protocol that dictates the precise format and structure of the messages sent Instant messages are not secure
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Weblogs
Blog or Weblog An online journal or newsletter that is frequently updated and intended for public consumption
Do you have a blog? Do you read blogs?
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