BTEC 2012

Unit 1 The Online World

Name: Ben Hadley

Lesson 7 Worldwide Web

Starter Who developed the Worldwide Web? and in what year?
Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist is said to be the inventor and developer of
the WWW in 1989
1. What is the WWW?
The WWW is the database in which all webpages and files are store
2. How is the Internet different from the WWW?
The internet is the global network in which webpages and files are stored. While WWW is the files of webpages
that is accessed using the internet
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

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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
Hypertext Transfer
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Domain Name

Path

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Unit 1 The Online World

Name: Ben Hadley

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Plenary What does HTML and URL stand for?

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
URL: Universal Resource Locator.