About the Web
This is an article about the World Wide Web.
The World Wide Web is a collection of documents that are linked to
one another. The Web is not the same as the
Internet. The Internet is a world-wide network of networks, and it
does far more than simply serve up Web pages.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, put special
emphasis on the portability of web pages. Rather than create a
proprietary format, he made Web pages dependent only upon plain ASCII
text.
Web pages are written in a markup language called HTML. Here is what it
looks like. The < and > mark off elements.
<body>
<div id="top-navig">
<a id="top"></a>
<a href="index.html">CIT 040 Index</a>
>
Assignment 1
</div>
<h1>Assignment 1</h1>
<p>This exercise shows you how to use the two computer environments that
you will use in this class. You will:</p>
<ol class="upper-roman">
<li>Set up your directories on Windows. This is
where you will write your HTML documents.</li>
</ol>
It looks difficult, but it is possible to learn HTML in a few
weeks. You, too can create web pages for viewing by
friends and family!
Note that, in our listing, we had to encode > as >.