EECS 1520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Machine Code, Java Applet, Metalanguage

• School: York University
• Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Course: EECS 1520
• Professor: John Hofbauer

Document Summary

World wide web (web) infrastructure of information and network software used to access it. Web page document that contains or references various kinds of data. Link connection between one web page and another. Website collection of related web pages, usually designed and controlled by same person or company. Web browser software tool that retrieves and displays web pages. Web server computer set up to respond to requests for web pages. Uniform resource locator (url) standard way of specifying location of web page (web address core part of url which uniquely identiies page one wants) Search engine site that helps one ind other websites. Concept-based searches igure out context of search. Instant messaging (im) application that allows people to send and receive messages in real time. Both sender and receiver must have im running. Most im applications use proprietary protocol that dictates precise formal and structure of messages that are sent across network to receiver.