The "World-Wide Web":
A Distributed Hypermedia over the Internet

Paper preparred for Learntec 94
Karlsruhe

Daniel Schneider,
TECFA,
Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education,
Université de Geneve, Switzerland.
9 route de Drize, CH-1227 Carouge
Phone: +41 22 70 9694
Email: schneide@divsun.unige.ch

ABSTRACT

The "World Wide Web" (WWW) is a distributed hypermedia system that runs over the Internet. In a hypertext, if you want more information about a particular subject mentioned, you can usually "just click on it" to read further details. WWW documents can be linked to other documents written by different authors, in various locations. To access the web, you run a browser program. The browser reads documents, and can fetch documents from other sources. Information providers set up hypermedia servers which browsers can get documents from. The browsers can, in addition, access files by FTP, NNTP (the Internet news protocol), gopher and an ever-increasing range of other methods. Finally, the browsers permit searches of documents and databases as well as a "fill-out form" interfaces for accessing any kind of external programs running on a server.

The WWW has great potential as a distance education tool. It delivers information to the learner in an easy way and allows for more sophisticated computer mediated communication tools such as dynamic hypertext, question/answer programs, conferencing systems, etc. This text covers the main functionalities of WWW and related Internet Tools. We will show how WWW documents are produced and discuss how the WWW is currently being used in education.

ABSTRACT
1. - 1. THE INTERNET, THE CLOSET THING TO THE FUTURE INFORMATION HIGHWAYS
2. - TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE WWW, THE INTEGRATOR OF "CYBERSPACE"
3. - 3. THE WWW AND EDUCATION
4. - 4. HOW TO GET STARTED
Learntec 94 Article - 13 FEB 95

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