BTEC 2012

Unit 1 The Online World

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Lesson 7 Worldwide Web

Starter Who developed the Worldwide Web? and in what year?
The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1990.
1. What is the WWW?

The worldwide web (or www) consists of millions of web pages linked together, plus the content
that appears on those pages (such As text and images).
2. How is the Internet different from the WWW?

The internet is different from www because for users to use the www you would need internet
3. What does HTML stand for?

Hyper Text 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

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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Unit 1 The Online World

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Plenary What does HTML and URL stand for?

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