BASIC TERMS OF INTERNET BASICS

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HTML(Hyper Text Markup Language)
HTML is a markup language that is used to publish web pages. Technicallly, it is not a programming language but it was developed to display the content in required format on the website.
WEB PAGE
A web page is an electronic document of information that can be accessed through aweb browser.It is created using HTML (HyperText Markup Language).  It is generally contained in a website that floats in the world wide web. Web pages may be retrieved from a local host computer or from a remote computer with the help of internet.
WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)
It is a system of Internet servers that supports hypertext and multimedia to access several Internet protocols on a single interface. It is often abbreviated as the Web or WWW. It is a way of exchanging information between computers on the Internet, trying to tie them together into a vast collection of interactive multimedia resources. 
WEBSITE
A group of related Web pages that follow the same theme and are connected together with hyperlinks is called a Website. A website can be compared as a book which contains chapters in the form of webpages. The first page of a website is called as "Home Page'. The website may be owned by individuals, agencies, companies, etc.
Tim Berners-Lee has created the first website which was launched in 1991. It's URL was http://info.cem.ch .
WEB BROWSER
It is a software application that is used to locate, retrieve and display some content on the World Wide Web, including Web pages. These are programs used to explore the Internet. It is an interface that helps a computer user to gain access over all the content on the Internet. Ex- Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera, Apple Safari, etc.
WEB ADDRESS
Web is a collection of documents (Web pages) stored on computers around the world. Each Web page has an address describing where it can be found. This address is known as Web address or domain name. A Web address identifies the location of a specific Web page on the Internet, such as https://akgupta96.blogspot.com/ .
Domain Name System:
Text Based addressing system on internet is called Domain Name System. In this system each website has a unique name. The last three letters of the web address provides information about the domain for the type of Organization.
Ex:-
      Abbriviation                       to denote
       .com                                      commercial firm
       .edu                                       educational firm
       .gov                                        government body
WEB SERVER
Every Website need to be stored on a computer called the Web server from which it can be accessed. The server is always of high configuration with larfe storage capacity that can store data and high speed processor executes the instruction very fast. Ex- Apache, IBM Lotus, etc.
Apache is an open source web server. 

WEB CLIENT
A Web client is the requesting program associated with the user. The Web browser is a client that requests for HTML files from Web servers.
URL(Uniform Resource Locator)
Each web page has a unique adress or location that is called URL. It identifies the location on the internet. The format of a URL consist of different parts:
URLs can be categorized into:
Absulute URL: Absolute URLs are the URLs with complete internet address.
Relative URL: Relative URLs are used to refer links on the same server.
ISP(Internet Service PRovider)
ISP provides accessibility to use internet through its server. An internet service provider usually supplies access internet.
Ex- Reliance, Jio, Vodafone etc.
IP Address (Internet Protocol Address):
It is an address of a computer on internet. IP address identifies the location of the computer that is connected to the internet. IP address can be Static and Dynamic. A static IP address is permanent internet Address. A dynamic IP address is a temporary address that is assigned eaach time to a device when it is connceted to internet.
  • ipconfig command line tool is used to view IP address of  device.
WEBPORTAL
It is a specially designed website that often serves as a single point that avails various information, resources and service such as email, forums etc.
    Ex- MSN, Rediff, Yahoo, Google etc.
Webportal is also known as public portal.

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