Wednesday, April 4, 2012

World Wide Web

The web was developed between March 1989 and December 1990. The main name behind the web was Tim Berners-Lee

External objects including pictures and extra code are all referenced using what are called 'tags'. The components of a website all reside in its code, image tags, links etc. all are using the code

A web server is used for hosting a website on a particular IP address which anything can connect to. A web browser is what connects to this server, in modern times we type in a URL instead of an IP address, this URL would have been linked to a particular IP address via a DNS server and so will connect automatically.