Edexcel GCSE Computer Science
5.3.2: understand what is meant by the world wide web (WWW) and components of the WWW (web server URLs, ISP, HTTP, HTTPS, HTML)
5.3.2: understand what is meant by the world wide web (WWW) and components of the WWW (web server URLs, ISP, HTTP, HTTPS, HTML)
| Keyword | Definition |
|---|---|
| Browser | Application software that a user uses to access the WWW |
| Domain name | the name of a web server or computer that can be used instead of an IP address |
| Domain Name Service | the process of using a domain name to look up the IP address of a computer connected to the Internet |
| Hyper Text Markup Language | the way of describing the content and structure of web pages in the world wide web |
| Hyper Text Transfer Protocol | the set of rules used to request and transmit data across the WWW |
| Protocol identifier | The first part of a URL which describes whether the resource should be requested using http, https or ftp |
| Uniform Resource Locator | a unique name for a page or file that can be accessed over the WWW |
| Web page | an online resource that can contain text, graphics, video and sound and can be accessed via the WWW |
| World Wide Web | service which runs on the Internet to provide access to web pages, files and other data |
