Internet Technologies

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Internet Technologies

• Wolfgang Nejdl
• Lecture 1

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Questions

• How does the WWW work?
• HTML to describe semi-structured information
• HTTP to exchange this information between client
  and server
• Primers (HTML and HTTP)
• A small HTML Tutorial
• NCSA HTML Tutorial
• Easy Introduction to HTTP
• Standards (HTML, XHTML, HTTP)
• HTML 4.01 Recommendation
• XHTML Recommendation
• RFC for HTTP

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Implementation Links

• From the SUN Java Tutorial
• Java, URLs Building a Web Client
• Java, Sockets Building a Server

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History

• Inventing the Web _at_ CERN
• 1989 Proposal
• TBLs Short History of the Web
• WWW, Hypertext and Links
• Design Issues for the WWW
• What are Links?

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Further Questions

• How do I describe and exchange data?
• XML as Data Exchange Language
• How do I call procedures over the Web?
• Remote Procedure Calls / Web Services
• How do we find information in the WWW?
• Search Engines, Crawling, Indexing, Ranking
• How do I include meaning in the WWW?
• Semantic Web
• What about Peer-to-Peer instead of Client-Server?

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Search in the WWW

• Stanford Course CS276
• CS276A Course Page
• Introduction to Web Search et al
• Links
• Searching in Google (slide 4)
• Bow-Tie Structure of the Web (slide 11)
• Spell Checking in Google (slide 23)