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What is World Wide Web
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Computer network consisting of a collection of Internet sites that offer text and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol.
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A global collection of documents, images, multimedia, applications, and other resources, logically interrelated by hyperlinks and referenced with uniform resource identifiers (URIs), which provide a global system of named references.
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Online hypertextual space in which documents are identified by addresses called URLs (Universal Resource Locator) and are connected to one another by selectable links
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The user-friendly platform on which users interact with others and resource information on the Internet.
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Web
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Also known as the
Web
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Web
browser.
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The portion of the Internet structured for use with a
web
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Web
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a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a
web
browser, one can view
web
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Online hypertextual space in which documents are identified by addresses called URLs (Universal Resource Locator) and are connected to one another by selectable links
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Alternate name of the internet, hence www, now often omitted in URLs.
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The
World Wide Web
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Web
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An application of the Internet providing content.
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The aggregate of all interconnected equipment and devices via Internet access points.
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An information space invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 and available through internet where information resources are available and identified by Universal Resource Locators (URL) and linked with each other by hypertext links. The term ‘
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Web
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web
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web
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is now transmitted to semantic
web
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A distributed hypertext-based information system that operates over the Internet and permits the easy access to available information by employing a special software called a “
web
browser.”
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A system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents in a language called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), which supports links to other documents as well as graphics, audio, and video files (Zvanut, 2006).
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A system of interlinked hypertext documents on the internet
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The
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Web
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A system of interlinked multimedia documents distributed over the Internet created by Tim Berners-Lee around 1990.
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portion of the Internet that comprises of massive collection of files and resources that are accessible via a
web
browser.
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The
world wide web
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The universe of network-accessible information, supported by a body of software, and a set of protocols and conventions (http://www. w3.org/WWW).
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An information system on the Internet which allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another.
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Alternate name of the Internet, hence www, now often omitted in URLs.
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The
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Web
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Web
browser, one can view
Web
pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks (W3C, 2013).
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A part of the Internet accessed through a graphical user interface and containing documents often connected by hyperlinks—called also
Web
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A global publicly available hyperlinked information system, accessed through the Internet, also called simply The
Web
or WWW credited to Berners-Lee (1989) .
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A distributed hypertext-based information system that operates over the Internet and permits the easy access to available information by employing a special software called a “
Web
browser”.
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31.
Also known as the
Web
or WWW, it is the user-friendly information system on which users interact with others and resources on the Internet, which forms the framework for the
Web
and undergirds the
Web
’s technological power. Invented in 1989 by the English scientist Tim Berners-Lee, the
Web
was available for public use in 1991. As
web
sites were constructed, the
Web
gained popularity and now in 2021 serves as the platform for 4.66 billion people for its resources and interaction.
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