, Internet vs world wide web:
- The internet is the infrastructure
- It is a concept rather than something tangible.
- it relies on physical infrastructure to allow networks and individual devices to connect to other
networks and devices
- The world wide web is the collection of websites and web pages accessed using the internet.
- its a massive collection of web pages based on the hyper text transfer protocol
Internet:
- users can send and receive emails
- allows online chatting
- makes use of transmission protocols and internet protocols
- its a worldwide collection of interconnected networks and devices
World wide web:
- collection of multimedia web pages and other info on websites
- http protocols are written using hyper text markup language
- uniform resource locators are used to specify the location of web pages
- web resources are accessed by web browsers
- uses the internet to access info from web servers
Uniform Resource Locators: It is a text based address of a web page, it can contain the protocol, the
domain name, and the web page/file name.
protocol://website address (domain name)/path/file name
protocol: http or https
website address:
- domain host (www)
- domain name (website name)
- domain type (.com, .org, .net)
- sometimes country code (.uk .de .cry)
Hyper text transfer protocol: the language used to design, display and format web pages, and to write
http(s) protocols.
- a set of rules that must be obeyed when transferring files across the internet
- https is hyper text transfer protocol secure; it has extra security such as SSL applied
- it's a more secure way of sending and receiving data across a network.
Web Browsers:
Main purpose: to render hypertext markup language and display web pages