LESSON 7:

The Web

LITERA03Z: Living in IT Era

College of Education/Dept of Computer Studies
University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos
WHAT IS IN THE WEB?

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THE WORLD WIDE WEB
• consists of a worldwide
collection of electronic
documents hyperlinked and
accessible via the Internet (Web
pages)
• A Web site is a collection of
related Web pages and
associated items
• Web Address called URL.

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TIM BERNERS-LEE
• Inventor of World Wide Web
• he implemented the first
successful communication
between a HTTP client and
server via the internet in
November 1989.
• Web pages are primarily text
documents formatted and
(HTML).
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WEB DESIGN
• encompasses many different
skills and disciplines in the
production and maintenance of
websites.
• A Web site is a collection of
related Web pages and
associated items
• HTML and XML (+ CSS +
JavaSript)
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WEB BROWSER
• is a software application
for accessing
information on the
World Wide Web.
• a software program that
allows a user to locate,
access, and display web
pages.
• TRIVIA: What was the
world’s first browser?
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THE EARLY WEB PAGES

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THE EVOLUTION OF THE WEB

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WEB 1.0
• The first generation of the web
• focused on linking existing
information. In this generation
search programs, like Google
Search (read-only!)
• were created to provide links to
websites containing specific
words or phrases.
• set of static websites that were
not yet providing interactive
content.
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WEB 2.0
• In 2001, the second generation,
Web 2.0, evolved to support more
dynamic content creation , social
interaction and collaboration
• Facebook is one of the best-known
Web 2.0 applications.
• is the name used to the describe
the second generation of the world
wide web, where it moved static
HTML pages to a more interactive
and dynamic web experience.

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WEB 3.0
• “intelligent Web”
• It focuses on applications that automatically
prepare personalized content for users.
• searches for interrelationships among the
data (e.g., the effect of weather and traffic on
an individual’s planned daily commute to
work
• automatically presents relevant information
to the user (e.g., sends an early morning
message to the individual’s smartphone
regarding expected bad weather and/or traffic
delays)

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UNIFORM RESOURCE LOCATOR
•A Web page has a
unique address called
a URL or Web address
•https://
www.uno-r.edu.ph/fac
ulty
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SEARCH ENGINES
• is a software system that is
designed to search for
information on the World Search Subject
Wide Web. engine directory
• SERPs
Classifies Web
Finds information
• Two types of search tools related to a
pages in an
organized set of
are search engines and specific topic
categories
subject directories
• Give examples of SEs
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SEARCH ENGINES

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TOP 10 SEARCH ENGINES
• GOOGLE
• BING
• YAHOO
• ASK.COM
• AOL.COM
• BAIDU
• WOLFRAMALPHA
• DUCKDUCKGO
• INTERNET ARCHIVE
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SEARC ENGINE
• A search engine is helpful in locating items such as:

Images Videos Audio News

People or
Maps Blogs
Businesses

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WEB SITE’S CONTENT
• Information presented on
the Web must be
evaluated for ACCURACY
• No one oversees the
content of Web pages

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OBSERVE AND EVALUATE

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MULTIMEDIA
• refers to any application that combines text with:

Graphics Animation Audio

Virtual
Video
Reality

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UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING
• is a concept where computing
is made to appear anytime
and everywhere.
• can occur using any device, in
any location, and in any
format. 
• Use of computers and other
digital devices in everyday life.
• AKA Ubicomp or Pervasive

ICT
computing
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WHAT IS CONVERGENCE?
• the merging of
distinct devices,
industries, or
technologies into
a unified whole.

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DIGITAL CONVERGENCE
• Digital convergence refers to the
convergence of four industries
into one conglomerate, ITTCE
(Information Technologies,
Telecommunication, Consumer
Electronics, and Entertainment).

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TECHNOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE
• A process by which
telecommunications,
information technology
and the media sectors that
originally operated largely
independent of one
another are growing
together.
• combination of two or
more different technologies
in a single device.
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CONVERGED NETWORK
• Telecommunications
convergence is the term
used to describe emerging
telecommunications
technologies, and network
architecture used to migrate
multiple communications
services into a single
network.

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MEDIA CONVERGENCE
• …books, newspaper, radio,
camera, TV, these are all
forms of older media.
• What about “Digital
Media”, the modern
media? What are they?
• Media Convergence is the
joining of distinct
technologies into one.
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THOUGHT TO PONDER…

“…We will continue to see a

convergence of the digital and
physical world.
Those who conquer that trend will
become market leaders.”
~John Phillips
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