The Web and

the Internet

Florante V. Andres, MAEd

Topics

• What is “The Web”?

• Types of Web Pages
• What is the Internet?
• Internet History
• How does the Internet work?
• Major components of the Internet
The Web
• The Web (World Wide Web) consists of information
organized into Web pages containing text and graphic
images.
• The world wide web is larger collection of
interconnected documents or content.
• Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng
FRSA FBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English
engineer and computer scientist best known as the
inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial
Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford
and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology.
Web 1.0
• Web 1.0 is a retronym referring to the first stage of the World
Wide Web's evolution, from roughly 1991 to 2004.
• According to Graham Cormode and Balachander
Krishnamurthy, "content creators were few in Web 1.0 with the
vast majority of users simply acting as consumers of content".
• Personal web pages were common, consisting mainly of static
pages hosted on ISP-run web servers, or on free web hosting
services such as Tripod and the now-defunct GeoCities.
Web 2.0: Dynamic Web Pages

• Static vs. Dynamic

• Then Web 2.0 came
• Web 2.0 is coined by Darcy DiNucci on
January, 1999 – “Fragmented Future”
• Web 2.0 is the evolution of Web 1.0 by
adding dynamic pages
Web 2.0 Features
• Folksonomy – tagging (#)
• Rich User Experience – responsive to user’s input
• User Participation – others are able to put content of their own
• Long Tail – services-on-demand vs one-time-purchase
• Software as a Service – software subscription
• Mass Participation – diverse information sharing
The Web
What is Semantic Web?
• An extension of the current
web in which information is
given well-defined meaning,
better enabling people and
computers to work in co-
operation (Tim Berners Lee)
• Semantic means “data-driven”
Semantic Web Examples
Web 3.0 Problems
• Compatibility – html files and web browsers could not
support 3.0
• Security – questionable since the machine is saving his or her
preferences
• Vastness – WWW contains billions of pages
• Vagueness - certain worlds are imprecise
• Logic – certain limitations for a computer to predict what is
user is referring to at the given time.
 Web 4.0

• “Mobile Web”
• The next step is not realy a new version, but is
an alternate version of what we already have.
• Web needed to adapt to it’s mobile
surroundings.
• Web 4.0 connects all devices in the real and
virtual world in real-time.
 Web 5.0
• Open, Linked and Intelligent Web = Emotional
Web
• “symbiotic” web
• read-write-execution-concurrency web
• will be about the (emotional) interaction between
humans and computers.
• the interaction will become a daily habit for a lot of
people based on neurotechnology.
• for the moment web is “emotionally” neutral, which
means web does not perceive the users feel and
emotions.
What is the Internet
Internet
• Internet is defined as an Information super highway
• a world-wide global system of interconnected computer networks.
• Internet uses the standard Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).
• Every computer in internet is identified by a unique IP address.
• IP Address is a unique set of numbers (such as 110.22.33.114) which
identifies a computer location.
• A special computer DNS (Domain Name Server) is used to give name to
the IP Address so that user can locate a computer by a name.
• For example, a DNS server will resolve a
name http://www.tutorialspoint.com to a particular IP address to
uniquely identify the computer on which this website is hosted.
Internet Services
Major Components of the Internet
• Servers
• Internet Protocol (IP) Address
• Browser
• Domain Name System (DNS) – generic and country domain
• Internet Service Provider (ISP)
• Digital Subscriber Line
• Cable broadband
• Fibre optic broadband
• Wireless or Wi-Fi broadband
• Satellite and mobile broadband
• Dedicated lease line
Types of Servers
• Application Server
• Web
• Proxy Server
• Mail
• File
• Policy Server