MIS 303 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Online Magazine, Knowledge Management, Disintermediation

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Management of Information Systems
• Course: MIS 303
• Professor: Run Jung

Document Summary

Internet: a massive network that connects computers all over the world and allows them to communicate with one another. World wide web (www): provides access to internet information through documents, including text, graphics, audio, and video files that use a special formatting called html. Hypertext markup language (html): publishes hypertext on the www, which allows users to move from one document to another simply by clicking a hot spot or link. Html 5: the current version of html delivers everything from animation to graphics and music to movies; it can also to build complicated web applications and works across platforms, including a pc, tablet, smart phone, or smart tv. Hypertext transport protocol (http): the internet protocol web browsers used to request and display web pages using universal resource locators (urls) Url shortening: the translation of a long url into an abbreviated alternative that redirects to the longer url.