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absolute URL | Berners-Lee, Tim | browser | content | CSS | <div> | Domain Name | <font>| FTP | homepage | HTML | index.html | Internet | link | meta tag| network neutrality | URL |W3C | WWW
absolute URL -
An absolute URL points directly to a file and specifies the exact location of a file/directory on the internet.
Berners-Lee, Tim-
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, known as the "inventor of the world wide web," is a British engineer, computer scientist, and MIT Professor that Time Magazine named one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century in its June 14, 1999 issue. He is the current director of the of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which he founded in 1994 and oversees the web's continued development. Berners-Lee originally proposed a concept based on hypertext for researchers to share and update information easily on the internet while he was a contractor for CERN. This proposition helped to change the world as we know it and make the internet accessible and functional for all people.
browser -
a software program that allows the user to find and read encoded documents in a form suitable for display, esp. such a program for use on the World Wide Web.
content -
The individual items or topics that are dealt with in a publication or document.The individual items or topics that are dealt with in a publication or document.
CSS -
Cascading Style Sheets
<div> -
The <div> element gives structure and context to any block-level content in a document. Unlike some other structural elements that have very specific connotations attached to them (the <p> element, for instance), the author is free to give meaning to each particular <div> element by virtue of the element's attribute settings and nested content. Each <div> element becomes a generic block-level container for all content within the required start and end tags.
Domain Name -
used as an Internet address to identify the location of particular Web pages
<font> -
A <font> element is a container whose contents are rendered with the font characteristics defined by the elements attributes. This element is deprecated in HTML 4 in favor of font attributes available in style sheets that are applied directly to other elements or the arbitrary <span> container for inline font changes. This element will be supported for a long time to come to allow backward compatibility with web pages designed for older browsers, however.
FTP -
File Transfer Protocol: a software protocol for exchanging information between computers over a network.
homepage -
The opening or main page of a website, intended chiefly to greet visitors and provide information about the site or its owner.
HTML -
HyperText Markup Language: a set of standards, a variety of SGML, used to tag the elements of a hypertext document. It is the standard protocol for formatting and displaying documents on the World Wide Web.
index.html -
traditional filename for such a page, but most modern HTTP servers offer a configurable list of filenames that the server can use as an index. If a server is configured to support server-side scripting, the list will usually include entries allowing dynamic content to be used as the index page (e.g. index.php, index.shtml, default.asp) even though it may be more appropriate to still specify the html output (index.html.php or index.html.aspx), as this should not be taken for granted.
Internet -
a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide (usually prec. by the). The Internet includes commercial, educational, governmental, and other networks, all of which use the same set of communications protocols.
link -
an object, as text or graphics, linked through hypertext to a document, another object, etc.
meta tag -
Meta tags are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page. Such tags are placed at the head section of an HTML or XHTML document. Meta tags can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head tags and attributes.
network neutrality -
Network Neutrality means that powerful corporations or governments cannot control the "end" users ability to access information.
URL -
Uniform Resource Locator: a protocol for specifying addresses on the Internet.
W3C -
World Wide Web Consortium World-Wide Web, body
(W3C) The main standards body for the World-Wide Web. W3C works with the global community to establish international standards for client and server protocols that enable on-line commerce and communications on the Internet. It also produces reference software.
WWW -
World Wide Web: The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system.