This week’s topics
The internet and the World Wide Web
- What the internet is
- The difference between the internet and the web
What you will be able to do
- 1.1 Explain the client-server model.
Activity
Explain the difference to a younger student.
Study materials
Further resources
- Workplace Software and Skills, 1.3: The Internet from Inception to Today · PDF · OpenStax Workplace Software and Skills (2023), 1.3: what the internet is and how the web grew on top of it, pp. 32–35 · for registered students
- Foundations of Information Systems, 1.1: Development of the Internet · PDF · OpenStax Foundations of Information Systems (2025), 1.1 on the internet and the World Wide Web, pp. 12–14 · for registered students
- ITU Facts and Figures 2025: Internet use · PDF · ITU Facts and Figures 2025, opening sections: how many people are online worldwide, pp. 1–8 · for registered students
- A brief history of the Internet · Open-access article · Leiner et al. (2009), ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review. Concise history of the Internet by the people who built it. · for registered students
- How to measure the world's technological capacity to communicate, store and compute (Part… · Open-access article · Hilbert & López (2012), International Journal of Communication. How much information the world stores and sends, and how it went digital. · for registered students
Materials marked “for registered students” open in the student portal, which is set up as soon as you receive final acceptance.
