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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 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, Client/Server Architectures and the components of the World Wide Web.

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

001 Introduction to the World Wide Web (WWW)
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

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu