The World Wide Web is a collection of documents located all over the world, and which can have links to images, motion videos and audio files.
Links use Web addresses called URLŐs (Uniform Resource Locators) which have the form
  • http://www.place.org:8888/mydirectory/mydoc.html
where
  • http is the hyperlink web service
  • www.place.org is the internet name of the web server
  • 8888 is the optional port number
  • /mydirectory/ is the directory or folder path to the document within the web server document space
  • mydoc.html is the document to be retrieved (with an html file extension)
Types of files follow the standard MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) originally developed to include multimedia and multi-part content with electronic mail messages.
File extensions on the server tell which MIME format the file is in.
The browser is configured to have a set of helper applications or Ňplug-insÓ to appropriately display or play files in various MIME formats.

See also color IMAGE Foil 14 Web Content is Hyperlinked Multimedia

From Introduction to the World Wide Web and Web Technologies presentation: Introduction to the www and Web Technologies -- Fall Semester 96. by Nancy McCracken-Foils prepared December 9 1996


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