BTEC 2012

Unit 1 The Online World

Name: Dannielle McLeod

Lesson 7 Worldwide Web

(Student Book B Pg 4 - 7)

Starter Who developed the Worldwide Web? And in what year?

Tim Berners-Lee in 1991
1. What is the WWW?
The worldwide web is held on individual wed pages which are gathered together to form websites of
associated information.

2. How is the Internet different from the WWW?

The WWW. Is a subset of the internet. The WWW. consists of web pages that can be accessed using a
web browser, whereas the internet is the network on which all the information sits.
3. What does HTML stand for?
Hypertext Markup Language
4. Name three example HTML tags and explain why they come in pairs.

URL Uniform Resource Locator

Protocol; Hypertext
transfer protocol

Domain Name

Path

http://www.w3schools.com/html/default
.asp
4. Name the following URL parts for the following link.

http://www.iteach.org.uk/btec2012/unit13/task2/index.html
Protocol; hypertext
transfer
Type of
organization

Path

A.Silver

BTEC 2012
Unit 1 The Online World

Name: Dannielle McLeod

5. Name the following sections highlighted below.

1 Description of what you are searching for.
2 Sponsored ads with appear at the top of the results list.
3 Search results ranked in order of most popular or most relevant.

1.
22.

3.

Plenary What does HTML and URL stand for?

HTML - Hypertext markup language
URL A unique string of characters which make up a web pages address.

A.Silver