Title: Theory / Unimportant / CS / Hardware / Computer Network - Tanenbaum / 7 - Application layer / 3 WWW

Name: The web
Definition: An architectural framework for accessing linked content spread out over millions of machines all over the Internet.
Page: 646
Chapter: 7
Section: 3
Name2: The World Wide Web

Name: Dot com era
Definition: The period through 2000, when many Web companies became worth hundreds of millions of dollars overnight, only to go bust practically the next day when they turned out to be hype
Page: 647
Chapter: 7
Section: 3

Name: World Wide Web Consortium
Definition: an organization devoted to further developing the Web, standardizing protocols, and encouraging interoperability between sites
Page: 647
Chapter: 7
Section: 3
Abbreviation: W3C

Name: Web page
Definition: The principal container of information on the web.
Page: 647
Chapter: 7
Section: 3.1
Name2: Page

Name: Hypertext
Definition: The principle of having pages pointing to other pages.
Page: 647
Chapter: 7
Section: 3.1

Name: Browser
Definition: Program to view pages
Page: 648
Chapter: 7
Section: 3.1
Example: Firefox
Example2: Internet explorer
Example3: Chrome

Name: A hyperlink
Definition: A part of a page, associated with another page.
Page: 648
Chapter: 7
Section: 3.1

Name: Hyper text transfer protocol
Definition: Protocol for requesting web pages
Page: 649
Chapter: 7
Section: 3.1
Abbreviation: HTTP
Typ: TCP

Name: Static page
Definition: A web page read off disk
Page: 649
Chapter: 7
Section: 3.1

Name: Dynamic page
Definition: A web page generated for a request
Page: 649
Chapter: 7
Section: 3.1