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Keeping a record of your research bookmarking your favourite sites.
What is the Internet and the World Wide Web?
The World-Wide Web The World-Wide Web allows users to interact with documents stored on computers around the globe. Developed in 1992 at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, as a means of distributing and annotating scientific research. World-Wide Web Consortium specify a set of rules for creating, publishing, and finding documents.
What is a URL?
A URL (Universal Resource Locator) is referred to as an address but in many ways it is more useful to think of it as the electronic equivalent of a call number on the spine of a library book. The URL is where an electronic file is on the Web. Below, the URL for corecomputer page is analyzed part by part http://www.anu.edu.au/ITA/corecomputer/ http:// The first part of the URL identifies the protocol necessary to retrieve the file. http:// indicates that the file is a web page (HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol,). www.anu.edu.au Firstly www directs us to a specific computer as www is a common name for World-Wide Web servers. From this URL a visitor would know that the site is educational because it has edu in the address. Educational institutions have domain names with edu in them. We can also tell that it is an Australian site because of au. In the case of the URL above anu identifies the Australian National University as the subdomain.
ITA/corecomputer/ The last part of the URL specifies what is called the fully-pathed filename for this page. It describes the full path which means that the name tells what directory the file is stored in on the web server's hard disk drive. So ITA identifies the site as being part of the Institute of the Arts section of the server and then finally corecomputer tells us that it relates to this course.
Articles online: History of the Internet Internet History 1962-1992 from The Computer Museum History Center for more old maps of the Net. History of the World Wide Web as told by CERN - this article sketches in a brief outline of what happened. W3C's Little History of the World Wide Web History of the Internet - Timeline: A briefly described timeline of Internet history. Guess when it all started? 1836 with the invention of the telegraph. The Roads and Crossroads of Internet History by Gregory R. Gromov . This amazing story is told -rich in anecdotes and graphics. It explores history and the philosophy of the Internet. Gromov by the way starts the story with the Atlantic cable of 1858. Article: Where it's at History of the @ symbol
These notes are written for students who undertake the Core Computer course at School of Art, Australian National University. Students of the course should feel free to contact any member of staff with comments questions and general suggestions.. < Home Index > < Staff Contact > < Class groups > < Assessment > < Basics Module > < Photoshop 1 Module> < Photoshop 2 Module> < Illustrator Module > <3D Module > < Web Design Module > < Terms and Jargon > < Online Resources > |
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You may encounter URLs using other schemes, such as: gopher:// Identifies a file on a gopher server. news:// Identifies an item from a Usenet news group. ftp:// Identifies a file that can be downloaded from an FTP server. |
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Other common endings for domain names are:
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