Title: 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.
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Assignment 1
This exercise shows you how to use the two computer environments that
you will use in this class. You will:
- Set up your directories on Windows. This is
where you will write your HTML documents.
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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 >.