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Posted by admin on January 20th, 2009

Facts you may or may-not have known about the web…

The World Wide Web was created in 1991 by CERN engineer, Tim Berners-Lee. On 30<sup>th April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone.

The World Wide Web is where you will find a number of different websites. A Website is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, accessible through the Internet.

A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) that is almost always accessible via HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). This is a protocol that transfers information from the Web server to display in the user’s Web browser.

The URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) of the pages organise them into a hierarchy, although the hyperlinks between them control how the reader perceives the overall structure and how the traffic flows between the different pages of the website. The pages of a website can usually be accessed from the homepage, and usually reside on the same physical server.

Some websites require a subscription to access some or all of their content. Here are a few examples of subscription sites: many business sites, message boards, services, parts of many news sites, social networking websites, gaming sites, and sites providing real-time stock market data. Because they require authentication to view the content they are technically an Intranet site.

Before the introduction of HTTP and HTML, other protocols such as file transfer protocol and the gopher protocol were used to retrieve individual files from a server. These protocols were made in a simple directory structure which the user navigates and chooses files to download. Documents were more than often perceived as plain text files without formatting or were encoded in word processor formats.

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