Describe with Technology : Narrative Writing and Critical Thinking
Web Basics
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Web Basics
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Look Ahead
Task: Analyze the URLs of your sources.

Goal: Show that you know how the World Wide Web works.

You may want to review an example of a URL analysis before you begin.

See the example:
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Key Concept
You know that the World Wide Web is part of the Internet. Do you know why it is called the World Wide Web? You know that the Internet is global, so World Wide makes sense. But why is it called the Web? It is not because it connects computers to one another. Networks and the Internet do that.

The Web is called the Web because it uses hypertext to connect documents to one another. The Web also connects multimedia to documents, which is called hypermedia. The Web is the part of the Internet that contains hypertext and hypermedia.

Hypermedia makes the Internet more powerful and more useful. Some people say that the Web is the graphical part of the Internet. Before the Web was invented, everything on the Internet was plain text. The Web has transformed the Internet from an academic research tool into a common household appliance.

The more you know about technology, the more you can do with it. If you want to understand the Web, you have to understand hypertext and hypermedia. The more you know about hypertext and hypermedia, the better you will be able to use the Web.

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