IS 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Html, Top-Level Domain, Bing

• School: University of Utah
• Department: Operations & Information Systems
• Course: IS 2010
• Professor: Lucy Woolsey

Document Summary

The internet- actual physical makeup of wires and connecting chords. The web- the operating system on computers. Five main types of web use- communicating, shopping, education, entertainment, and searching. Parts of a url- protocol (http) rules for exchanging information beteween computers. Top level domain suffix of the url (. com). Html- when you enter a url, this hypertext markup language is sent back to you. This contains the content in the url you searched. The technologies that provide this content include css-lines inserted into a webpage to create the appearance, used by netflix. Javascript-a language used to trigger certain actions such as autofill and searches, used by microsoft search engine bing. com. Ajax-advanced form of javascript, used by google maps. Applets-programs that can be downloaded quickly and run by most browsers, an example is games. Web utilities-make using the internet safer and easier. Plug-ins-programs that automatically open during certain tasks with the browser. (flash player, quicktime)