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Introduction to World Wide Web (WWW)

The World Wide Web is a world-wide repository of linked information, called hypertext or hypermedia. It consists of A user interface consistent across many computers A set of open standards that enables the interface to access a variety of document types and information protocols. A provision for universal access, based on the Internet domain name schemes.

In this talk, we give a brief background on the Internet and its services (telnet, ftp, news and mail), Client/Server Architectures, Networking, and several prominent Web technologies.

This is an introductory talk intended for people of any background who have used the Web, but wish to know more about how it works and what capabilities are possible.

Table of Contents for Introduction to World Wide Web (WWW)

001 Introduction to the World Wide Web (WWW)
    and Web Technologies
002 Introduction to the World Wide Web
003 Background on the Internet
004 History of the Internet
005 History of the World Wide Web
006 Applications based on information services typically use a 
    Client/Server Architecture
007 Familiar Clients and Servers
008 The World Wide Web is a collection of clients and servers called 
    browsers and Web sites
009 Networking
010 Internet Services:  Telnet
011 Internet Services:  FTP  
012 Internet Services:  News
013 Internet Services:  Mail Lists
014 Web Content is Hyperlinked Multimedia
015 Web Links can go to other Internet Services
016 Multimedia types
017 Forms and CGI Scripting
018 The CGI script returns data through the server
019 Web Search Engines
020 Web Search Indexes
021 Databases
022 JavaScript
023 Java
024 Future Web Technologies:  VRML