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Unit 1 The Online World

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Lesson 7 Worldwide Web

(Student Book B Pg 4 - 7)

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

On March 12, 1989 the world wide web was discovered created by Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist
and former CERN employee

1. What is the WWW?

Internet is the large container, and the Web is a part within the container. It is common in daily conversation to
abbreviate them as the "Net" and the "Web", and then swap the words interchangeably.

2. How is the Internet different from the WWW?

World Wide Web The web's logo designed by Robert Cailliau Invented by Tim Berners-Lee Company CERN
Availability Worldwide The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3, commonly known as the web) is a
system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web
pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

3. What does HTML stand for? HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language - the primary
markup language used to write content on the Web. Every single Web page on the Internet has at
least some HTML markup included in its source code.

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
Path

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BTEC 2012
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Unit 1 The Online World

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4. Name the following sections highlighted below.

1 is the description on what you want to search for
2 Sponsored ads will appear at the top of the results list with the rating on it
3 The Search results you was looking for, all ranked in order of most popular or most relevant

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Plenary What does HTML and URL stand for?

A unique string of characters which makes up a web pages address
The primary markup language used to write content on the Web. Every single Web page on
the Internet has at least some HTML markup included in its source code.

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