Draft:Outline of the World Wide Web

The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to the World Wide Web:

The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. It allows documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

Below is a structured list of topics pertaining to the World Wide Web.

Overview

The World Wide Web can be described as all of the following:

• Hypermedia system –
  • Hypertext system –
• Information space –

Access

Prerequisites

In order to access the World Wide Web, a user must have:

• Internet-capable computer
• Internet access – connects individual computer terminals, computers, mobile devices, and computer networks to the Internet, enabling users to access Internet services. Internet access requires:
  • Internet service provider (aka ISP) –
• Web browser (list) –

Access methods and tools

• Web browser (list) –
  • Augmented browsing (list) –
  • Browser extension –
    • Mozilla Add-ons
    • Google Chrome Extensions
    • List of Firefox extensions
    • List of Internet Explorer add-ons
• Internet bot –
  • Web crawler –
• Other web access tools
  • Download manager –
    • Comparison of download managers

Websites

Website –

Website types

• Web directory   (list) –
• Web portal –
• Archive site –
  • List of Web archiving initiatives –
• Wiki –
  • List of the largest wikis –
• Online encyclopedia –
• Search –
• Social networking service –
  • List of social networking websites –
• Video hosting service –
  • List of video sharing websites –

Website components

• Web page –
• Web content –
  • Electronic journal –
    • List of journals available free online –
  • Flash animation –
  • Webcomic –
    • List of webcomics –
    • List of search engines –
  • Academic databases and search engines –
  • Internet radio –
  • Internet phone –
  • Internet television (IPTV) –

Web development

Web development –

• Web content development –
• Web design –
  • Page layout
    • Extensible Markup Language (XML) –
      • Document object model (DOM) –
      • Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) –
        • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) –
        • eXtensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) –
  • Dynamic web page design –
    • Dynamic HTML (DHTML) –
    • Javascript –
      • AJAX (asynchronous JavaScript and XML) –
• Web engineering –
• Web development tools –

Facets

• Content by accessibility
  • Surface web – portion of the World Wide Web that is readily available to the general public and searchable with standard web search engines.
  • Deep web – parts of the World Wide Web the contents of which are not indexed by standard web search engines for any reason.
    • Dark web – World Wide Web content that exists on darknets, overlay networks which use the Internet but require specific software, configurations or authorization to access.
• Facets by functionality
  • Web 1.0 –
  • Web 2.0 –
  • Semantic Web –
  • Web of Things –

History

Main article: History of the World Wide Web

• ENQUIRE – hypertext program, predecessor to the World Wide Web, written in 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.

Security

• Anonymity
  • Anonymity application
  • Anonymous blogging
  • Anonymous P2P
  • Anonymous remailer
  • Anonymous web browsing
  • List of anonymously published works
• Browser security
  • Privacy mode
• Comparison of file sharing applications
• Data privacy
• Firewall (computing)
• HTTP cookie
• HTTP tunnel
• Internet privacy
• OpenVPN
• Personally identifiable information
• Privacy software and Privacy-enhancing technologies
  • FLAIM
  • I2P
  • I2P-Bote
  • Java Anon Proxy
  • Onion routing
    • Tor (anonymity network)
  • Private P2P
• Pseudonymity, Pseudonymization
• Secure communication
• Spyware

Semantic web

Semantic web –

• Resource Description Framework –

World Wide Web-related organizations

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) – international organization whose purpose is to develop of standards for the World Wide Web. As of 29 March 2012, the W3C has 351 member states. W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.
• World Wide Web Foundation – international non-profit organisation advocating for a free and open web for everyone. The organisation was founded by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Announced in September 2008 in Washington, D.C., the Web Foundation launched operations in November 2009 at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). It is focused on increasing global access to the World Wide Web, while ensuring the web is a safe and empowering tool that people can use freely and fully to improve their lives.

Persons influential in the World Wide Web

• Tim Berners-Lee – inventor of the World Wide Web (in 1989).

See also

• Outline of the Internet

External links

• The first website
• Early archive of the first Web site
• Internet Statistics: Growth and Usage of the Web and the Internet
• Living Internet – comprehensive history of the Internet, including the World Wide Web
• Web Design and Development at Curlie
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• W3C Recommendations Reduce "World Wide Wait"
• World Wide Web Size – daily estimated size of the World Wide Web
• Antonio A. Casilli, Some Elements for a Sociology of Online Interactions
• The Erdős Webgraph Server – offers weekly updated graph representation of a constantly increasing fraction of the WWW
• The 25th Anniversary of the World Wide Web – animated video produced by USAID – and TechChange – which explores the role of the WWW in addressing extreme poverty