World Wide Web (WWW)

a collection of HTML documents,images,videos, and sound files thatcan be linked and accessed over the internet using protocol calledHTTP.

The Web is NOT the internet.

Web browser

A browser is how the web is assessed. Client software that displays web page elements and handles links between pages. Popular ones are Microsoft Edge,Firefox, Google Chrome,Apple Safari

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)(Essential Web Technologies)

coined by Ted Nelson

it is a computer system that stores literary documents,links themaccording to

logical relationships,and allows readers to comment and annotate what they read. Standard protocol between browsers and web servers. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) Essential Web Technologies

the predominant language used to create web pages

1990 Tim-Berners-Lee

Nexus software originally called World Wide Web

Nexus ran on NeXt computers and was not available for huge installedIBM's.

Marc Andeessen created Mosaic

Mosaic(browser) ran on several computers including Windows

Marc then created Netscape

Netscape(browser) put the web into million of hands.

HTML is the foundation for professionally desined corporate websites.Other parts of the markup family tree.

DHTML(Dynamic HTML) creates interactive websites.

XML(Extensible Markup Language)describes data like in a phone book.XHTML(Extensible HTML) similar to HTML,but stricter about punctuationand other coding.