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INTERNET TERMINOLOGIES
et us learn about a few Internet terminologies.
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
M is a markup language that is used to publish web pages. echnically it is not a programming language
but it was developed to display the content in required format on the website.
Website
A website is a collection of one or more web pages that display information with the help of a web browser.
A location on the web server where an individual or a company or any organisation uploads its information is
known as website. A website can be compared with a book which contains chapters in the form of web pages.
he first page of a website is called as ome age . he pages on a website are linked to one another and a
user can navigate to any page by clicking on yperlinks .
Websites are hosted on the web server on rental basis by the ‘Internet Service Providers’. In order to access
them, every website is provided with a unique name. The websites may be owned by individuals, agencies,
companies, colleges, universities, government bodies, etc.
Web Page
A web page is an electronic document of information that can be accessed through a web browser. It is
generally contained in a website that floats in the orld ide eb. eb page may be retrieved from a local
host computer or from a remote computer with the help of Internet. Web pages are requested and served
from web server using protocols like .
eb pages may consist of static pages which are stored within a file system of a web server and or dynamic
pages which contain files of run-time nature i.e. which facilitates online data transformation . eb pages
may contain information in the form of text, images, pictures, sound, audio, video, etc.
Web Browser
Web Browser is an application software program to access the World Wide Web. It provides a way to look at
and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web. This includes web pages, videos and images.
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