Harvard Extension School
CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Web Site Development | Fall 2019

## Features of the World Wide Web

- HyperText Information System

- Cross-Platform and Cross-Device

- Distributed
  - 187 million active sites and around 8.9 million "web-facing" computers
    (Netcraft August 2019 Web Server Survey)
- Open Standards
  - TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Open Source
  - Mozilla, WebKit, Apache HTTP Server, JavaScript, PHP, Python, etc.
- Web Browser: provides a single interface to many services
  - Information, Shopping, Finance, Communication, Business, etc.
- Dynamic, Interactive, Evolving

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