What is WWW Really?
Hypermedia -
Enhanced text and links between pages.
Distributed -
The World is your Filesystem.
Interactive -
Users can interact with the medium.
Dynamic -
implicit control over publishing.
Platform Independant
- Not vendor specific.
Many Information
Sources - Previous Internet Protocols supported.
Implicit Typing
- MIME
provides data typing at the server.
No Central
Management - Anyone can publish, no critical dependence on a single
server.
Electronic Commerce on the Internet - WWW (World Wide Web)
- the "Glossy Brochure"
Rodney
Campbell [Rodney.Campbell@Telstra.com.au]
(c) Copyright
1995 Telstra Corporation.
Last modified: Sun May 7 15:53:13 1995