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  2. Web page - Wikipedia

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    A web page is a structured document. The core element is a text file written in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML). This specifies the content of the page, [3] including images and video . Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) specify the presentation of the page. [3] CSS rules can be in separate text files or embedded within the HTML file.

  3. History of the World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    The World Wide Web, or simply the Web, is a global information system that allows people to access and share data across the Internet. The Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Learn more about the origins, evolution and impact of the Web on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

  4. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    The web browser then initiates a series of background communication messages to fetch and display the requested page. In the 1990s, using a browser to view web pages—and to move from one web page to another through hyperlinks—came to be known as 'browsing,' 'web surfing' (after channel surfing), or 'navigating the Web'. Early studies of ...

  5. Static web page - Wikipedia

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    Static web pages are often HTML documents, [4] stored as files in the file system and made available by the web server over HTTP (nevertheless URLs ending with ".html" are not always static). However, loose interpretations of the term could include web pages stored in a database, and could even include pages formatted using a template and ...

  6. Website - Wikipedia

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    Website. A website (also written as a web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server. Websites are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, such as news, education, commerce, entertainment, or social media.

  7. Dark web - Wikipedia

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    Definition. The dark web has often been confused with the deep web, the parts of the web not indexed (searchable) by search engines. The term dark web first emerged in 2009; however, it is unknown when the actual dark web first emerged. [11] Many internet users only use the surface web, data that can be accessed by a typical web browser. [12]

  8. Marshall Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion (equivalent to $173 billion in 2023) in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.

  9. Nadar (caste) - Wikipedia

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    Nadar (caste) Nadar (also referred to as Nadan, Shanar and Shanan) is a Tamil caste of India. Nadars are predominant in the districts of Kanyakumari, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli and Virudhunagar. The Nadar community was not a single caste, but developed from an assortment of related subcastes, which in course of time came under the single banner ...