What is "the internet"?
The Internet is a globally connected network system. The purpose of the Internet is to facilitate communications and have access to data resources worldwide.
Ways you can access the Internet:
- using data from any device
- sending an email to a coworker
- online gaming with friends
It’s governed by agencies just like Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (or IANA) that establish universal protocols.
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What is "the web"?
The Web is the leading information retrieval service. It gives users access to many documents worldwide that are connected by hypertext or hypermedia links.
Hypertext, HTTP, HTML:
- hypertext allows the user to pick a word or phrase from text and access other documents that contain additional information about that word or phrase
- HTML usage allows everyone accessing the internet through the web to dsicover, access, and communicate digitally
- HTML is the language of the Web and the HTTP is the grammar rules using it
While the Internet has its roots in the 1960s, the World Wide Web was first accessed in 1991, once many of the kinks of networking on a global scale had been worked out, and the need for a common language asserted itself.
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What is an "app" and what are its key differences from a "webpage"?
An app is another form of connecting ot the Internet without the usage of the Web. Any app could use a number of different coding languages other than HTML.
How a webpage is different from an app:
- only uses HTML links
- only resources that have an HTML coding language are able to see within the webpage
- on a webpage there are many ways to access it only but on an app data can only be accessed through the specific app not through the Web unless is obtain hypertext or hypermedia links
The New York Times might publish the same articles on its website as it does in its mobile app, but they technically exist in different places, in different forms. Something published only on the app is invisible to Google, and to browsers, until it is given a webpage.
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