Lesson 3
Lesson 3
The Web
The Web ( World Wide Web) is a global information medium which users can
access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly
used as a synonym for the Internet, but the Web is a service that operates over
the Internet, just as email do.
The Web consists of information organized into Web pages containing text and
graphic images. The world wide web is larger collection of interconnected
documents or content. It contains hypertext links, or highlighted keywords and
images that lead to related information.
So, who invented the www or the world wide web? Timothy John Berners-Lee
OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS “also known as TimBL” he is English engineer and
computer scientist,
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working as a
software engineer at CERN, in response to the needs of the large number of
scientist participating in an experiment who are eager to exchange data and results
with other scientist but had the difficulty doing so he submitted a proposal
specifying the technologies that would make the internet truly accessible and
useful to people. Despite the initial setbacks in 1990 he specified the three
fundamentals technologies that remain the foundations of today’s web ( which you
can see on your web browser) these are the HTML(HyperText Markup Language)
<html>, URL (Uniform Resource Locator), and HTTP (Hypertext Transfer
Protocol).
Since that time, the web changed the world, the web has fundamentally altered
the way we teach and learn, buy and sell, inform and are informed, agree and
disagree, share and and collaborate, meet and love.
Web technology and the way it is used has certainly evolved over the last few
years, and evolution has brought about new tools and techniques.
These evolutions have popularly been called: Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0
A. Web 1.0 (Read Only Static Web)
Web 1.0 is the term used to refer to the first stage of development on the
World Wide Web that was characterized by simple static websites.
Benefits: The benefits of this feature is that it could satisfy many other
more users out there.
3. User Participation – the owner of website is not the only one who is
able to put content. Others are able to place a content on their own by
means of comments, reviews, and evaluation.
4. Long Tail – most retail sites traditionally sold directly to the user, but
now sites are able to offer services as well in which users can subscribe
monthly or pay a fee every so often. Example of this is the Netflix
Web 3.0 deals with artificial intelligence, where in computers and machines
are programmed as if they were humans, like for example youtube sites
uses an AI to analyze your daily routine, your like and dislikes, your
frequently views and your most search videos.
Types of websites:
1. eCommerce Website is a website people can directly buy products
from. Any website that includes a shopping cart and a way for you to
provide credit card information to make a purchase falls into this
category.
Example: Ticketing over internet, paying taxes, Online payments (Apple,
Spotify, Amazon, Alibaba)
2. Business Website is any website that’s devoted to representing a
specific business. It should be branded like the business (the same logo
and positioning) and communicate the types of products and/or services
the business offers.
Internet
Created by Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn it was a result of another
experiment called the ARPANET which stood for Advanced Research
Project Agency Network. It was a defense department research project.
Major Components
Servers – whenever computers share resources with client machines
they are considered servers.
Types of Servers
Application Server – a server designs to run applications. It includes
both the hardware and software that provide an environment for
programs to run.
Web Server – a software and hardware that uses HTTP (Hypertext
Transfer Protocol) and other protocols to respond to client requests.
Proxy Server – a computer system or router that functions as a relay
between client and server
*Proxy means “to act on behalf of another”, proxy server acts on
behalf of the user.
Mail Server- is a software that transfers electronic mail messages from one
computer to another
File Server- File servers store and distribute files. Multiple clients or users
may share files stored on a server.