1. Global communication… …global impact.

2. the world wide web Jason Maslanka

3. world wide web A global, read-write information space Contains text documents, images, multimedia and many other items of information. Identified by Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) so that each can be found, accessed and cross-referenced in the simplest possible way. Often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet.

4. basic terms Hypertext: a format of information which allows one to move from one part of a document to another or from one document to another. Resource Identifiers: unique identifiers used to locate a particular resource on the network. Client-Server Model of Computing: a system in which client software makes requests of server software that provides the client with resources or services.

5. web browsers A client program called a web browser retrieves information resources, such as web pages and other computer files. One can follow hyperlinks in each page to other resources who location is provided by hyperlinks. The act of following hyperlinks is often called “browsing” or “surfing” the Web.

6. web browsers The most used web browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer.Microsoft Internet Explorer An up and coming browser is Mozilla Firefox.Mozilla Firefox The most popular browser on the Macintosh is Safari. Safari

7. how the web works

8. origins Can be traced back as far as 1980. In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. In 1991, a summary of the project was posted to alt.hypertext newsgroup. Big breakthrough was to marry the hypertext concept to the internet’s vast capabilities. Gained critical mass with the 1993 release of the graphical Mosaic browser. Gopher utilized graphics and became popular partially because of it.

9. sociology The web has allowed unprecedented global interpersonal exchange. Nearly any digitized information can be exchanged through the web: pictures, text, music, video, etc. It is the most extensive medium of personal exchange to appear on Earth. The Web has no preference for tolerance or intolerance, empathy or repression.

10. etcetera The Web is available for anyone to publish their work. There is no publisher or media institution which controls its content. Some Web browsers do not support special characters which challenges the notion of a true worldwide composition. WWW is the longest possible three-letter acronym to pronounce in English. It may be the only acronym that takes longer to pronounce than what it stands for.

11. links World Wide Web Consortium History of the Internet & W3 Growth of the Web and Internet Stats The World’s First Web Server The information in this presentation was remediated from the World Wide Web article on the Website “whats new media? a Wiki.”World Wide Web whats new media? a Wiki