Introduction to Web Application Development
Web Technology
The growth of the World-Wide Web (WWW or simply Web) today is simply phenomenal. Each day, thousands more people gain access to the Internet (upwards of 6 million users at recent estimates). Easy retrieval of electronic information in conjunction with the multimedia capabilities of Web browsers (like Mosaic or Netscape) is what started this explosion. This document will provide some basic information behind some of this technology used in accessing the World-Wide Web.
History of World Wide Web (www)
First, a distinction: The Web and the Internet are not the same thing. The Web is a collection of standard protocols, or instructions, sent back and forth over the Internet to gain access to information. The Internet, on the other hand, is a “network of networks” a more physical entity.
The World-Wide Web began years ago by CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) who sought to build a distributed “hypermedia”......
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