... ) invented? It was invented in 1989 by English Computer Scientist Sir Tim Berners Lee, when the first linking was created in what we acknowledged as the Internet today.(World Wide Web Foundation 20082014) during when he was working as a software engineer under the company called European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), a physics laboratory located in Geneva, Switzerland. Many scientists there will ... living far apart. Then Tim realized this needs and understood the advantages of having computers linked together via the internet. He documented what will turn out to be the World Wid...

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... world, order clothes and other materials from stores hundreds of miles away, even pay your bills without ever licking a stamp. Tim Berners-Lee is recognized as having created the World Wide Web while he was a researcher at the European High-Energy Particle Physics lab, the Conseil Europeenne pour la Recherché Nucleaire (CERN), in Geneva, Switzerland. Tim Berners-Lee wanted a way for ... client software program's user interface would be dependable across all types of computer platforms so that users could access information from many type of computers. A line-mode user interface, World ...

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... over the Internet. Issuance and management of encryption keys for millions of users will pose a new type of challenge. While some technologies have been developed, only an industry-wide effort and cooperation can minimize risks and ensure privacy for users, data confidentiality for the financial institutions, and non-repudiation for electronic commerce. With the continuing growth in linking ... hope the great benefits of the Internet will continue to override these hurdles through new technologies and legislations. The World Wide Web is the single largest, most ubiquitous source of infor...

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The World Wide Web is a natural medium for tourist organisations. It enables a country or area to create an encyclopaedia of information and even booking functions that can be distributed to every part of the globe accessible via a PC and modem. There are many web sites devoted to tourism such ... spot as the preferred product to buy on the Internet. Although there has become a great demand for virtual tourism on the World Wide Web it is important to look at the experience of the virtual tourist in comparison to reality. The negative aspects to virtual tourism are ... virtual tourism could ...

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Abstract In order to have a successful Internet business, companies must develop a business strategy that outlines customer experience as well as core products and/or services. Strategy on the Web The World Wide Web has become an important tool for companies to sell a variety of products and services to consumers. The primary objective of most Internet companies is to complete a purchase transaction. However, ... the World Wide Web can offer more to consumers by providing a unique customer experience. This experience will bring them back to shop time and time again. Identifying and building t...

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... of the World Wide Web. Examples of web technologies and standards that have developed since the inception of the World Wide Web include Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web, 3.0, and Web 4.0.The W3C Consortium uses specific tools, software, and specifications to create and maintain such standards. Web 1.0 Standard Web 1.0 standard is popularly known as the web of cognition and it is the first web standard that provided ... search capabilities, hyperlinked text, simple search-result pages, and online features such as discussion groups and forums. Cloud Computing Advancement in technologies have provide...

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... business, and governmental networks, which together carry various  information  and services, such as email, online chat, file transfer, and the interlinked  web pages  and other documents of the  World Wide Web. Contrary to some common usage, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not synonymous: the Internet is the system of interconnected  computer networks, linked by  copper  wires,fiber-optic  cables,  wireless ...  connections etc.; the Web is the contents, or the interconnected documents, linked by  hyperlinks  and  URLs. The World Wide Web is accessible through...

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... technology and within years were building their own internal networks. With such information available online it wasn't long before the emergence of the World Wide Web occurred. Two factors played a key role in this development. Hypertext and Graphic Interfaces were soon in circulation and as such, information was ... popularity and effectiveness of the Internet has come under fire, and with good reason. There has no doubt been much advancement in the World Wide Web, however this change is not all being accepted as positive. Consumer users have perhaps seen the most significant changes. ...

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... month. But beyond this, the Internet is a new and highly efficient way of accessing, organizing and sharing information. Connecting to the Internet and the World Wide Web can be relatively inexpensive, depending on the access provider and the type of access. A dedicated Internet connection makes a business a permanent part of the Internet ... by providing a source of direct sales. It is difficult to determine the size of a company by its World Wide Web page. Sixteen percent of the companies use the World Wide Web as a way to provide help and service to their customers. Businesses often t...

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... is becoming a medium of communication and interaction between humans, namely the World Wide Web. This old but yet new medium is expanding and changing rapidly, thus making it close to impossible to control. The World Wide Web is offering more to society now than it ever has before, created by the ... Netizens", and few clicks away from databases, essays, articles, and multimedia presentations on any entity whatsoever. For the same reasons that the World Wide Web is so valuable and popular, it is also bad and dangerous. You might be able to shop around for an airplane ticket and might .....

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... The 21st Century has seen the growth of a range of such applications in schools, including simulations, games and materials delivered by the World Wide Web. In addition, a number of educational providers have launched various forms of virtual schools, where some or all of the educational content is ... company called Bunyip in Canada), LYCOS from Carnegie Mellon, YAHOO from Stanford, and INFOSEEK. Another dramatic sign is World Wide Web, which was first used, in experimental form in 1989 to develop at the European Centre for Particle Research. It took ... The excitement of being able t...

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... affect the one of the strength of Internet: the convenience to access thousands of valuable information, over other broadcasting media. Other than the common protocol innovation, the invention of World Wide Web and Mosaic are the key for the booming of Internet as it greatly enhance the user-friendliness of internet. As Pavilk, J said, perhaps the most important and fastest growing part ... colourful pictures, music and audio as well as data and text, and introduced multimedia capability to the Internet (2002, pp.14). Also, Flew, T also mentioned that the documents in World Wide Web are...

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... Internet (WebFoundation.org). Over the years, people around the world have come to find the World Wide Web very useful, making it a widely used resource today, from posting information in the web to accessing and making use of that information. Search engines are a great example. They are ... software systems designed to search and obtain information from the World Wide Web. The definition of a web search engine made by Halavais (2009, 5–6), is "an information retrieval system that allows for keyword searches of distributed digital ... where SEO's come into play. SEO stands for '...

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... computers and the new information age has put the world at our fingertips. Many of the changes allow information to be accessible via an intranet, extranet, email or the world wide web. We will discuss several methods of information processing and how it has impacted the business world. The Computer Information Age It Has Changed The Way We Conduct Business In most ... places of business, a computer is standard. In the bank they use computers to access your account information. At the University of Phoenix advanced computers systems and the world wide web are used in conjunction to reco...

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... seeker, or surfer, must know its Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which is its complete Internet address (Introna and Nissenbaum, 2000). Search engines construct what amounts to a map of the World Wide Web by indexing pages according to keywords that generate databases that link the contents of the pages to the keywords to finally the URL (Introna and Nissenbaum, 2000). One factor that ... and Nissenbaum, 2000, p. 169). Once again, it seems that the sites with the largest marketing budgets, not necessarily the most pertinent data, tend to be included in searches. The World Wide Web was on...

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... the physical world. Cyber space or virtual reality, as it is known, has become a world in itself, where everything is easily accessible through the Internet via the World Wide Web with a simple click of a mouse button. Virtual companies or electronic companies (e-companies) such as Amazon.com, Yahoo.com and millions more have successfully established themselves as profitable ... Cnet Networks and Epinions.com, software and hardware manufacturers pay these e-companies for their product promotion or advertising. Large manufacturers in turn receive a broad spectrum of World Wide Web adverti...

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... any form of business transaction in which the parties interact electronically rather than by physical exchange or contact." In the new millennium, there is more awareness that the World Wide Web provides immediate access to a broader international customer base than ever before possible, both businesses and consumers. Many businesses have been formed or expanded to target this market. In ... there are many international legal dimensions to consider including contract formation practices and requirements; consumer protection including privacy and local language requirements; and protectio...

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... supervised by some maintainers is adopted. Along with this, there are thousands of developers working to port various applications to Linux. Sun Solaris iPlanet iPlanet is Sun Microsystem's solution for a Web server and related programs intended to allow an enterprise to take advantage of the Internet. A joint venture with Netscape Communications, the iPlanet suite competes with similar offerings from Microsoft and ... other computers on the Internet. HTTP (The Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the set of rules for exchanging files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia ...

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... for internal information management, distribution and collaborative computing and offers a simplistic but powerful implementation of client/server computing. Intranets are private Web-based networks, usually within corporation firewalls that connect employees and business partners to vital corporate information. Thousands of organizations are finding that ... Intranets, center around TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) applications. These applications are used for the transport of information for both wide area and local area. Enterprise networks nowadays are a mix...

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... Intranet is a communication infrastructure. It is based on the communication standards of the Internet and the content standards of the World-Wide Web. Therefore, the tools used to create an Intranet are identical to those used for Internet and Web applications. The distinguishing feature of an Intranet is that access to information published on the Intranet is restricted to clients in the ... a specific group to communicate and share ideas, coordinate activities or manage the development and approval of content that eventually will become formal. This information generally not listed i...

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... paper has been substituted from the original topic: Describe the LAN of your company. The paper is the result of a study of several white papers retrieved from the World Wide Web. In recent years there has been increasing interest shown in wireless technologies for subscriber access, as an alternative to traditional twisted-pair local loop. A logical question is why ... white paper: "The Next Generation of LAN Access: Addressing the Requirements of Mobile Networking-, retrieved from the World Wide Web at http://www.nwfusion.com/whitepapers/extreme/ Tom Fout, "Wireless LAN Technologies a...

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... platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. HTML can be created and processed by a wide range of tools, from simple plain text editors - you type it in from scratch- to sophisticated WYSIWYG authoring ... the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is very similar to HTML in that it was specifically designed to address the issue of writing documents for the web (December, 2003). Additionally, XML, like HTML, uses bracketed Open and Close tags within the code. However...

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... the emergence of home shopping, relationship marketing, and the development of new information and communication technologies. One technology that combines all of these trends is the World Wide Web. Over the past five years, the World Wide Web has been adopted by commercial users at a rapid pace. In this short paper we are going to excavate the changing consumer outlook & issues before the e- ... or fraud when buying goods or services on the Internet. (Courtesy E-privacy: a key asset for winning customer loyalty - by PWC) Challenges ahead .. The Internet, and more specifically the World ...

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... has found new means of expression and a new problem for society to deal with. The Internet provides three major services to its users: E-mail, Usenet News and the World Wide Web (WWW). E-mail is the transfer of information from one user to another in an essentially private communication that has much in common with standard postal services. Pornographic material in this ... each year since 1993. The Internet user can post articles to any newsgroup they choose, in by doing so distribute text, graphics, videoclips, advertisements, or inevitably, pornography. The World Wide Web is the resour...

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... the computer field, women have been increasing in number on-line. As research and communication tools through e-mail, newsgroups, and the World Wide Web have increased in popularity and efficiency, women have overcome sex stereotypes and social stigmas about computer use and begun to become active on the ... are using the Internet and on-line services is remarkably low. (Hafner 50-51) Though the Internet itself reaches over thirty million people world wide and is usually free through universities, research organizations, and corporations, less than 10% of its users are women. (Hafner 51...

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