Англо-русский словарь компьютерных терминов:
world-wide web
= World Wide Web, = W3, = WWW
"Всемирная паутина", Сеть
а) глобальная гипертекстовая система, использующая Internet в качестве транспортного средства. Сеть серверов, по определению её основателя Тима Бернес-Ли (Tim Bernes-Lee), - распределённая гетерогенная информационная мультимедиа-система коллективного пользования
Смотри также:
audio streaming
,
browser
,
deep Web
,
FTP
1),
Gopher
,
HTTP
,
Telnet
,
URL
,
WAIS
б) сервер, на котором хранятся HTML-документы, связанные между собой гипертекстовыми ссылками. Просмотр документов осуществляется с помощью специальных программ (смотри
browser
), переход на другой документ выполняется щелчком на ссылке
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:
world-wide web
(WWW, W3, The Web) An
Internet
client-server
hypertext
distributed information
retrieval system which originated from the
CERN
High-Energy
Physics laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland.
An extensive user community has developed on the Web since its
public introduction in 1991. In the early 1990s, the
developers at CERN spread word of the Web's capabilities to
scientific audiences worldwide. By September 1993, the share
of Web traffic traversing the
NSFNET
Internet
backbone
reached 75 gigabytes per month or one percent. By July 1994
it was one
terabyte
per month.
On the WWW everything (documents, menus, indices) is
represented to the user as a
hypertext
object in
HTML
format. Hypertext
links
refer to other documents by their
URLs. These can refer to local or remote resources
accessible via
FTP
, Gopher, Telnet or
news
, as well as
those available via the http protocol used to transfer
hypertext
documents.
The client program (known as a
browser
), e.g.
NCSA
Mosaic
,
Netscape
Navigator
, runs on the user's computer
and provides two basic navigation operations: to follow a
link
or to send a query to a server. A variety of client
and server software is freely available.
Most clients and servers also support "forms" which allow the
user to enter arbitrary text as well as selecting options from
customisable menus and on/off switches.
Following the widespread availability of web browsers and
servers, many companies from about 1995 realised they could
use the same software and protocols on their own private
internal
TCP/IP
networks giving rise to the term
"
intranet
".
The
World Wide Web Consortium
is the main standards body for
the web.
An article by John December
http://sunsite.unc.edu/cmc/mag/1994/oct/webip.html
.
A good place to start exploring
http://ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/StartingPoints/NetworkStartingPoints.html
.
WWW servers, clients and tools
http://w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Status.html
.
Mailing list:
.
Usenet
newsgroups: news:comp.infosystems.www.misc,
news:comp.infosystems.www.providers,
news:comp.infosystems.www.users,
news:comp.infosystems.announce.
The best way to access
this dictionary
is via the Web since
you will get the latest version and be able to follow
cross-references easily. If you are reading a plain text
version of this dictionary then you will see lots of curly
brackets and strings like
http://hostname/here/there/page.html
.
These are transformed into hypertext links when you access it
via the Web.
See also
Java
,
webhead
.
(1996-10-28)
