3.1 What is World Wide Web?
World Wide Web. A hypermedia-based
system for browsing Internet sites. It is named the Web because
it is made of many sites linked together; users can travel from
one site to another by clicking on hyperlinks. Text, graphics,
sound, and video can all be accessed with browsers like Mosaic,
Netscape, or Internet Explorer. The Web can also be accessed
with text-only browsers like Lynx.
3.2 What is available on the
WWW?
The Web is a service on the Internet
which allows for a lot of flexibility in document access because
of its hypertext nature. The above URL examples indicate that
the World Wide Web actually offers a full integration of virtually
all other Internet services on the Web. Following the proper
URL (or hypertext link), you may
access through the Web:
anything served on Gopher
anything served through anonymous
FTP sites
nything on Usenet
anything accessible through
telnet
full Archie and Veronica services
anything served on WWW servers,
of course
3.3 What is a Web page?
A Web page is a document kept
on a web site. A Web page may contain text, audio, graphic, video
and links to other Web pages. A Web page is written and formatted
using Hypertext Markup Language(HTML).
3.4 What is Homepage?
There are three slightly different
meanings to the term home page:
- The home page os a Web site
is the first Web page displayed when you access the Web site.
- When u start a browser to surf
the Internet, the Web page which is loaded automatically is called
the home page. You can set up the browser to use any Web page
as the browser's home page.
- When your friend tells you his
home page, he is referring to the Web pages designed by him and
kept in certain web server.
3.5 How do i view the content
of WWW?
If you know the URL of a Web
site, you may access and retrieve information from the site with
the help of a Web browser.
For those who do not know where the required information is located,
you may search for the information with the help of an Internet
search engine like Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Altavista, etc. Just
key in the keywords about the information you wish to find and
the search engine will automatically search through its databases
and return the addresses those sites that match your seach conditions.
