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An introductionto HTML and the Internet

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Why I am doing this?

More Girls will fancy me?

In order to understand the internet,its important to discover the technologies and systems which underpin it?

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The Early YearsHTML and

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The Web is a beautifully simple idea

Made up of :Interconnected NetworksData exchange Protocols

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Standards in information automation or a set of instructions

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Interconnected Networks:

This is the internetResult of work carried out for the US Department of DefenseComputer Networks which areresistant to failure

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Data Exchange Protocols

Creation of Internet Protocol andTransmission Control ProtocolOr TCP/IP a new standardTCP/IP now underpins everyday services, e-mail, the web, FTP,Newsgroups and so on

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Still awake?

Ok good, so elsewhere data exchange protocols were being developed

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Tim Berners Lee

Was developing:The Hypertext Transfer Protocol,HTTPThe Hypertext Mark-up language,HTML

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HTTP:

HyperText Transfer Protocol is a means to request a document and have a web server respond

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HTML:

HyperText Mark up Language is a means to annotate a simple document. It is used to represent:

StructuralPresentationSemantic information

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Retain meaning, language

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HTML:

Allows the user to define:HeadingsParagraphsEmbed imagesClickable links (Hyperlinks)

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European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN)

Released HyperText into the world

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National Center for SupercomputingApplications

Releases Mosaic a combination of aWeb browser and a Gopher Server

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Mosaic

Mosaic goes on to become Netscape

The commercial arm of NCSA licenses their Mosaic to Microsoft

This heralds the start of the browser wars

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The browser warsHTML and

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The browser warsBoth Netscape and Microsoft try to achieve a competitive edge by:

Producing new features without fixing existing problemsAdding features in direct competition with other browsers existing featuresAdding Proprietary features

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Private ownership or control over an item

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Developers

The wars meant that web developers had to do one of two things:

Produce two different but effectively duplicate sitesSupport one browser blocking the other

A backlash was inevitable

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The coming of web standards

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World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Founded in 1994 to address the need for new markup languages and standardsIt is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards that ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all

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Its lofty aims are:

Device independence and web accessibilityAccess to web by any means as easily as from a desktop PCA knowledge base to solve complex problemsA collaborative environment to inspire trust and confidence

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Why use standards?

Greatest acceptance and uniform display of content across a multiple of browsers and OSMore meaningful to search enginesGreater chance of being accessible in future applications

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Casualties ofthe internet

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No.1 Mr Tombe’s dignity

Unfortunately for Mr Tombe, his indiscretion came in the digital age – and became one of the first viral news stories.