The web
What is the www?WORLD
WIDE
WEB
- The WWW is a network of computers all over the world
- All the computers can communicate with each other
and use a communication standard called HTTP
(=hyper text transfer protocol)
What are the browsers?
- Web information is stored in documents called Web pages
- Web pages are files stored on computers called Web servers
- The computer in Fano (Liceo scientifico Torelli) is a Web server.
- Computers reading the Web pages are called Web clients
- Web clients view the pages with programs called Web browsers
Popular browsers
| IE (Internet Explorer) by Microsoft |  |
| Netscape |  |
| Mozilla for Linux and Windows |
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| Opera for Linux and Windows |
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| Konqueror only for Linux |
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| Firefox The last born from Mozilla, for Linux and Windows It's an alternative browser compared with Internet Explorer! |
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Exercise: Use your browser
Now, you can write in your browser the address:http://www.w3schools.com/html/
and you can explore the site!
If you want, you can click here!