19 Questions
What was the original purpose of the World Wide Web (WWW)?
To provide easy access to crossreferenced documents on the CERN computer network
What is a Web page commonly identified by?
Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
Which computer delivers Web pages?
Web server
What is the most popular Web server software?
Apache HTTP Server (Apache)
What type of language is HTML based on?
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
What is HTML designed to define in a document?
The elements in a document independent of how they would appear
What does HTML stand for?
Hypertext Markup Language
What are HTML tags enclosed in?
< > brackets
What do HTML tags consist of?
and
What was created at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in 1990 and 1991?
The World Wide Web (WWW)
What is the basic format of a URL?
Protocol and domain name
What does HTTP manage in web communication?
Hypertext links
What is the role of an Internet Protocol (IP) address?
Identify computers or devices connected to the Internet
What does HTTPS provide for transactions on the Internet?
Secure connections
What does a domain identifier in a URL identify?
Type of institution or organization
What does an Internet Protocol (IP) address consist of?
Series of four groups of numbers separated by periods
What does an Internet Service Provider (ISP) provide?
Access to the Internet along with other services such as email
What is web hosting in relation to a website?
'The publication of a Web site for public access'
What is the function of a host in web communication?
'Refers to a computer system that is being accessed by a remote computer'
Test your knowledge about the history of the World Wide Web and its creation by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN. Learn about the original purpose of the WWW and the concept of hypertext linking.
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