EECS 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Markup Language, Html, Uptodate

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: Paul Kashiyama

Document Summary

Evolution of www has made network communication convenient for many users. Web has formed an infrastructure of info and resources and making them available at the click of a mouse button. Several diff underlying technologies make the web a productive tool (16. 1) spinning the web. Words internet and web are fundamentally different. Networks have been used to connect computers since the 1950s. Communication via the internet has been possible for many years: however this communication was almost exclusively accomplished via text- based email and basic file exchanges. Compared to the internet, the world wide web is a relatively new idea. The web is an infrastructure of distributed info combined with software that uses networks as a vehicle to exchange that info. Links: a connection between one web page and another. Website: a collection of related web pages, usually designed and controlled by the same person or company.