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World Wide Web : a part of the Internet designed to allow easier navigation of the network through the use of text and graphics that link to other documents — Merriam-Webster See also OneLook

Web (FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
HTTP (FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing)
HTML (FOLDOC: Free Online Dictionary of Computing)

Encyclopedia

World Wide Web (WWW) , commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), which may be interlinked by hypertext, and are accessible over the Internet. — Wikipedia

World Wide Web (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Search

Web & Computer Systems (Wolfram Alpha)

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Adventures

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Inspiration

Talks about the World Wide Web (TED: Ideas Worth Spreading)

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Innovation

Technology

The resources of the Web may be accessed by users by a software application called a web browser. Websites are stored in computers that are running a program called a web server that responds to requests made over the Internet from web browsers running on a user’s computer. — Wikipedia

FourZeroThree (YouTube Channel)

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Preservation

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Participation

Education ²

The World Wide Web (Crash Course Computer Science, YouTube Video)

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources

Course

W3Cx: Free online courses from W3C
W3Cx: The World Wide Web Consortium on edX (edX, YouTube Playlist)

World Wide Web Courses (edX)

Occupation

CareerOneStop, YouTube Channel (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
CareerOneStop, Official Website (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)

Web Administrators (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)

CareerOneStop, YouTube Channel (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
CareerOneStop, Official Website (U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)

Web Developers (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
Web Developers and Digital Designers (Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Organization

Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
World Wide Web Foundation

ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia and Web (ACM SIGWEB)

News

W3C News
World Wide Web (JSTOR)
World Wide Web (NPR Archives)

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Expression

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Media

Function	Communications	Computation	Storage	Creation	Simulation
Analog	Mail	Device	Paper	Type, Print	Automaton
Electronic	Network	Calculator	Tape	Record	Elektro
Digital	Internet	Computer
Hardware	Modem	Microprocessor	Memory	Peripheral	Robot, XR
Software	Service (Web)	Program (OS, SS)	Database	Application	AI, VW

Format Multimedia (Video, Animation) Image (Object) Scent, Flavor, Audio (Text) Haptic, “Other“

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Notes

1. The resources on this page are are organized by a classification scheme developed exclusively for Cosma.

2. This page was compiled by M. E. Hopper for ECOMP 6009: Weaving the World Wide Web while serving as a faculty member of Technology in Education at Lesley University. It has been expanded and updated since then.

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