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Seminar - An Overview of Communications Technologies
Seminar - An Overview of Communications Technologies
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Module 6 - Internet, Intranet, Extranet, e-Commerce and Web Services Slide 27 of 70 _________________ __________ The World Wide Web (WWW) Service
_________________ __________ The World Wide Web (WWW) is the most popular Internet service. It allows users to combine text, graphics, audio and animation to make a document. What is the WWW? - The WWW is the network of servers on the Internet. Each server has hypertext pages, which provide information and links to other documents residing on that or other servers. History - First proposed in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, as a method of making scientific papers and graphical images available to other scientists on the Internet. Berners-Lee developed other components (such as HTML, HTTP and URLs) of the WWW and came-up with the name world wide web. He wrote the first WWW server and the first client software. The Netscape browser was made available on the Internet in 1991. Berners-Lee was a scientists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, known CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland. In January 1995, CERN handed over the development of the WWW to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). - http://www.w3.org. The WWW Consortium - http://www.w3.org - The W3C promotes the Web by producing specifications and reference software, and is funded by industrial members but its products are available to everyone free of charge. The World Wide Web Services - The most used application is to retrieve multimedia information from the servers connected to the Internet.
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