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absolute URL |Berners-Lee,Tim| browser | content | CSS | Domain Name | FTP |homepage | HTML | index.html | Internet | link | meta tag | URL | W3C | WWW | Net Neutrality
absolute URL -
An absolute URL is one that completely specifies the desired resource starting from the root of the resource name space. It is unique, meaning that if two absolute URLs are identical, they point to the same resource.An example is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raster_to_Vector_Mechanical_Example.jpg. wikipedia
Berners-Lee, Tim-
Tim Berners-Lee is a british engineer and computer scientist that is credited with inventing the World Wide Web. In 1980 he held a temporary position at CERN (a famous particle physics lab in Geneva) where he began to develop a program called Enquire for his personal use. The program was a way for him to remember connections between people and projects at CERN. After leaving CERN he returned in 1984 and began to develop a simple system where databases could be shared among researchers. He submitted a proposal in 1989 to CERN to develop an information system that would create a decentralized web of information. Two technologies previously developed helped him with developing his system, the Internet and Hypertext. In 1990 he wrote the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. A language computers would use to communicate hypertext documents over the Internet. He also designed document addresses now known as URL. He also wrote the first browser to view hypertext documents and named it the "WorldWideWeb." Along with this he wrote the first web server known as "info.cern.ch." In 1991 he made his browser and web server available over the internet and the WorldWideWeb began to take off. Users of the Web grew as scientists, web enthusiasts, and government agencies all embraced the new medium. With the growth of users on the Web the need for more browsers became neccessary and Berners-Lee among others created browsers for Mac, PC and Unix. By 1993 Berners-Lee's server (info.cern.ch) was getting ten thousand hits a day. He became concerned over the new direction the Web was taking and was worried that the Web would seperate into areas of academic, commercial, free, etc. He was afraid this would destroy the open and free nature of the Web. This led to the first WWW conference in 1994. "A consortium to help the Web develop smoothly." Once CERN dropped out of the consortium Berners-Lee moved to MIT and became the head of the consortium W3C.
*All information for Biography from Internet Pioneers at iBiblio.org and Wikipedia Biography
browser -
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. wikipedia
content -
Web content is the textual, visual or aural content that is encountered as part of the user experience on websites. It may include, among other things: text, images, sounds, videos and animations. wikipedia
CSS -
Cascading Style Sheets
Domain Name -
A domain name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control on the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS). wikipedia
FTP -
File Transfer Protocal.
homepage -
The homepage (or, more commonly, home page) is the URL or local file that automatically loads when a web browser starts or when the browser's "home" button is pressed. wikipedia
HTML -
HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. wikipedia
index.html -
Home page of a website.
Internet -
The Internet, sometimes called simply "the Net," is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers).WinDevelopment.com Definitions
link -
An interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
meta tag -
A meta tag is a line of HTML coding that contains metadata about a webpage. wisegeek.com
URL -
Uniform Resource Locator
W3C -
WorldWideWeb Consortium
WWW -
World Wide Web
Net Neutrality-
Network neutrality is the idea that everybody should have equal access to the internet. Companies like Time Warner and AT&T would not be allowed to block sites or divert traffic to other sites that they have a financial interest in. Basically network service providers would have no say in which data would be privileged and given higher quality service. So for example if Time Warner had a vested financial interest in Google search engine they could give Google high priority and block or slow traffic to other search engines like Yahoo.