Web. The World Wide Web or
WWW:
In 1993
people at Illinois University created
software
that made moving about the
internet
easy. It
is this software that has created the web. It uses images on
the
screen that you click on.
Because it is designed for
graphical instead of word-based interaction, it is easier
to use than to describe. Information is fed into your
computer from all over the world by telephone. All you
do is
click
on an item on the screen. This sends
a message to another computer (which can be anywhere in
the world) to tell it you want to see some information,
and the computer, obligingly, sends it to you.
Usually
the new screen of information contains other points to
click on, and some of these link to computers
somewhere else in the world. Following an interest in
an author or subject, it is quite possible to find you
have collected screens of information from Britain, the
USA, Australia and Japan in just a few minutes. You
can also visit Middlesex University's web site and find
out what is happening there. And (here is the magic),
whatever the distance, the telephone call is usually just
a local call. Pages of information on the WWW have
addresses called
URLs
(Uniform Resource Locators).
They are written in
HTML.
Language
Web Working
Web working is working across the internet using the world
wide web and
email.
Study
links outside this site
Andrew Roberts' web Study Guide