How the Web Works

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1. Describe, step by step, what happens when I type `www.example.com` into my browser and try to go to the page?
 * ANSWER: The browser will ask the OS about "example". The OS will not know and so it will ask the Resolving Name Server which may know "example" if it's stored in the computer's memory. If it doesn't, it will ask the Root Name Server which will give it a direction to retrieve information needed from the TLD (top level domain) servers. The TLD will then direct the RNS (resolving name servers) to the ANS (authoratative name servers). The ANS will then supply the corresponding IP address for www.example.com. The RNS takes this info and stores it in it's cache and then heads back to the OS. OS will then give back to browser which will then take you to the right location.

1.  What does HTTP stand for?
 * ANSWER: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
 
2. 	What protocol does the World Wide Web use?
 * ANSWER:HTML, HTTP, URL's
 
3. 	Each computer on the Internet is assigned an IP address, what does IP stand for?
 * ANSWER:Internet protocol.
 
4. 	What does DNS stand for?
  * A. Domain Name System
  * B. Digital Number System
  * C. Domain Number System
  * D. Domain Name Service <<
  * E. Digital Name Service

5. 	How are text domain names matched to their respective numeric IP addresses.Matching the text domain names to their respective numeric IP addresses is the job of a seperate __________ server.
 * ANSWER:RNS
 
6. 	What is the client?
  * A. A purchaser
  * B. Internet shopping customer (Consumer)
  * C. The software which requests information from a server (browser)
  * D. The server to which a particular computer sends data <<
  * E. The computer which the IP address belongs to

8. 	What does URL stand for?
 * ANSWER:Uniform Resource Locator

9. 	What are protocols
 * A. The standardisation of IP addressess
 * B. The DNS standard method for data transfer
 * C.	The standardised network address system
 * D.	The standardised method for transferring data or documents over a network <<
 * E.	The standardised method for prioratising data or document storage over a network
 

10. What does DNS stand for?
 * ANSWER: Domain Name Server

14. what is the `www` portion of a url?
 * ANSWER:world wide web
 
19. What is The markup language used for all web documents?
 * ANSWER:HTML
 
20. What is the organization that monitors web technologies?
 * ANSWER:W3C
 
22. What is the Protocol for transferring web documents on the Internet?
 * ANSWER:Http and/or Https
 
24. What matches the domain names with numeric IP addresses?
 * ANSWER:ANS (authoratative name servers)