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- What is the Web ?
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- The Internet
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- The Internet was originally constructed by the American military
- to provide a rapid and flexible communications network. The
- internet is essentially the hardware that carries, stores and
- manipulates the information. Each computer on the internet is
- allocated a unique number, or "dotted four", so-called because the
- number looks something like "343.432.664.23". Most of the computers
- that are integrated into the internet are powerful machines capable
- of controlling the continous flux of data. These computers are
- generically known as servers. It is possible to take a smaller
- computer and temporarily connect it to the internet via a telephone
- line to a server and hence to the internet.
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- The World Wide Web (WWW)
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- The Web was concieved as a means of transfering a wide range of
- information types seamlessly on the internet, the idea being that it
- would be possible to allow small computers rapid access to all types
- of information on the internet. The information was then to be
- displayed in a coherent form.
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- HTML
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- HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) was devised as the means of
- arranging that information coherently. HTML lets the coder easily
- mix graphics, text, and so on.