Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Want to become a web developer from scratch!!!

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Today we are going to learn the difference between INTERNET and WWW:

The expansion of Internet is INTERconnected NETwork. The Internet is a giant network of networks. A network may include PCs, and other devices like servers or printers. A network is connected through a communication channel like coaxial cable, Optical Fiber, air.

The World Wide Web (WWW or Web) was discovered in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee created a set of technologies  that allowed information on the Internet to be linked together through the use of links, or connections in documents.

Keep in mind that Internet act like a hardware and WWW acts as a Software.

The concept of the WWW combines 4 ideas:
  • hypertext (a text that contains another text) - Term “Hypertext” was coined by Ted Nelson in 1963.
  • resource identifiers (URI, URL) Uniform Resource Locator e.g.: http://www.google.com
  • client-server model of computing (web servers/browsers)
  • markup language (HTML) (A language that contains tags e.g.,<body>,<a>etc.,)


The client-server architecture of the internet
The Client-Server Architecture of the Internet

Tasks on Day1:
Find what is URN? How it is different fom URL.
Write 4 example URL e.g.: http://www.google.com?
In the above diagam which acts as the client on the Internet either web server or web browser? Justify your Answer.