SOME WEB TERMINOLOGY

Web – Collection of electronic pages is called web. Father of web is Tim Berners-Lee.

Network – Collection of computers interlinked together. Klein Rock is the father of network. First network name is ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network). First protocol in IT industry is FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

Internet – International network. Father of internet is Vint Cerf, an American computer scientist.

Email – Electronic mail services. It is a free service to communicate with other internet users. Father of email is Shabeer Bhatia. First email service is hotmail.com

SMTP –Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, it takes care of delivering emails from one server to another.

MIME – Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension, it exchange different kinds of data.

W3C – World Wide Web Consortium, It was founded in the year 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee. It has 400+ members partnership. Well known members are Facebook, Google, Nokia, Samsung, IBM, Microsoft etc.

Web-browser – It is a client side lightweight software. It takes http request from client to server, it renders(brings) http response from server to client.

Web Architecture – It composed of 3 layers – Presentation layer, Business logic layer, Data access layer.

Blog – It is daily updating website or webpage, every post displayed in reverse chronological order (latest always first).

HTTP – It is a transfer protocol to exchange hypertext documents in the world wide web.

HTTPS – Secured transfer protocol to exchange hypertext documents with the help of SSL (Ciphertext).

ADDON – Additional features to the web browser. Example - Toolbar  

Plugin – It is an additional software to add the web browser. Example – Adobe flashplayer, Adobe pdf reader.

WebPage – It is an electronic page developed on HTML. It is classified into two types. Static webpage and Dynamic Webpage.

Static Webpage – User unable to interact directly with these webpages.

Dynamic Webpage – User can able to interact directly with these webpages.

Website – Collection of webpages or web documents. These are classified into two types – Static website and Dynamic Website.

Static website – It is completely developed on client side technologies. Example – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML.

Dynamic Website – These websites developed on client and server side technologies. Example – HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, PHP, JSP, ASP, etc.

Client Side Scripts – These scripts are executing within the web browser. Example – JavaScript, Jquery, JSON.

Server Side Scripts – These scripts are running within the web server Apache, Tomcat, IIS.