Lesson 3-The Web and The Internet
Lesson 3-The Web and The Internet
INTERNET
Objectives
At the end of this lesson, the student should be able to:
• Explore the current breakthrough technologies and
disruptive innovations that have emerged over the past
few years.
• Identify and analyze various emerging technologies.
• Explore the evolution of the internet.
• Identify and understand the different uses of internet in
today’s generation.
• Discuss the fundamental terms and definitions used in
the internet.
Lesson 1: The Web
The Web (World Wide Web) consists of information
organized into Web pages containing text and
graphic images.
The wor ld w ide web i s l a rge r co l l ec t i on o f
interconnected documents or content. It contains
hypertext links, or highlighted keywords and images
that lead to related information.
Web site - . A collection of linked Web pages that has a
common theme or focus
Home page - The main page that all of the pages on a
particular Web site are organized around and link back to.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee - also known as TimBL, is an
English engineer and computer scientist best known as the
inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow
of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a
professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.