The World Wide Web

The Internet is the underlying plumbing that conveys the data for ___.

• servers
• browsers
• applications
• emails

The WWW is a huge distributed application running on ___, accessed using a special program called a web browser.

• millions of computers worldwide
• thousands of servers worldwide
• thousands of computers worldwide
• millions of servers worldwide

The fundamental building block of the World Wide Web, or Web for short, is a ___.

• web browser
• single page
• hyperlink
• domain name

Hyperlinks allow users to easily flow from one ___ to another.

• related topic
• file
• link
• image

The idea of hyperlinked information was conceptualized by ___.

• Tim Berners-Lee
• Jonathon Fletcher
• Larry Page
• Vannevar Bush

Text containing hyperlinks is so powerful, it got an equally awesome name: ___.

• hyperlinking
• HTML
• hypertext
• HTTP

In order for pages to link to one another, each hypertext page needs a unique address called a ___.

• IP
• HTTP
• URL
• DNS

A domain name is translated into an IP address through a ___ look-up.

• URL
• DNS
• TCP
• HTTP

What is the standard port number for Web servers?

• 443
• 21
• 110
• 80

What does HTTP stand for?

• Hyperlink Transfer Protocol
• Hypertext Transmission Protocol
• Hyperlink Transmission Protocol
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol