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puters on the Internet.The Web is built around hypertext and hypermedia. A hypertext document has certain keywords or phrases linked to other online documents. A person reading a hypertext document about mobile phone, for example, might be able to select the highlighted word “Nokia 3310”, and he call up another document giving more information about that particular type. With documents intertwined by links into a web of information, you can select paths to browse online resources, a process often referred to as surfing.Hypermedia extends the concept of hypertext to other forms of information. They include: images, sounds, and even video clips. If a person read a hypermedia document about mobile phones, then he might select a video show of a phone and hear the ring of it.The World Wide Web also subsumes previous Internet information systems such as Gopher and FTP. These resources can still be accessed through the Web. But the Web offered by these more restricted connection methods. Now the Web provides a wealth of additional capabilities.Thousands of puters around the world are now connected to the Web. They offer a huge variety of information and services to visitors. These online documents are generally referred to as pages. They are posed and supported by various people and organizations. Web pages are available for an amazing variety of tasks ranging from the playful to the serious. You can get many services access Web pages. For example, you can search database of mailing lists, you can see pictures of your favorite band and their concert schedule, or you can take a “tour” through a foreign country. Thousands of links to new services are added to the Web each day, and its growth has been explosive.參考譯文萬維網(wǎng)萬維網(wǎng)(又稱WWW或Web)是因特網(wǎng)上發(fā)展最快的應(yīng)用軟件之一。它是一種結(jié)構(gòu)化框架,用于訪問遍布在因特網(wǎng)上的成千上萬臺機(jī)器中的鏈接文檔。萬維網(wǎng)把這些計算機(jī)連接成了一個巨大的交互式多媒體資源庫,它是因特網(wǎng)上的計算機(jī)之間進(jìn)行信息交流的一種方式。Web是用超文本和超媒體設(shè)計的。超文本文檔中的一些關(guān)鍵詞或短語被鏈接到了其他的在線文檔中。例如,某人在閱讀一篇有關(guān)移動電話的超文本文檔時,如果他選擇高亮顯示的詞“諾基亞3310”,就能鏈接到另一篇有關(guān)這一類型移動電話的文章,從而可以獲取更多的信息。網(wǎng)絡(luò)文章通過鏈接形成了一個網(wǎng)絡(luò)信息資源庫,用戶可以選擇路徑來瀏覽這些在線資源,這種行為通常被稱為“網(wǎng)上沖浪”。超媒體將超文本的概念擴(kuò)展到了其他的信息形式,其中包括圖片、聲音,甚至是錄像剪輯。在超媒體文檔中閱讀有關(guān)移動電話的文章時,讀者可以選擇關(guān)于該電話的視頻演示,還能聽見鈴聲。萬維網(wǎng)也包括了以前的因特網(wǎng)信息系統(tǒng),如Gopher 和FTP。這些資源仍然可以通過網(wǎng)絡(luò)訪問,但是以前那些連接方式的局限性很大,現(xiàn)在的網(wǎng)絡(luò)提供了許多先輩們沒能提供的功能。現(xiàn)在世界上成千上萬的計算機(jī)都連接到了網(wǎng)絡(luò)上,而且為訪問者提供了相當(dāng)多的信息和服務(wù)。這些由不同的人和組織編寫和支持的在線文檔被稱為網(wǎng)頁。Web網(wǎng)頁可以跨越從詼諧到嚴(yán)肅的各種風(fēng)格。通過訪問網(wǎng)頁,用戶可以查看郵件數(shù)據(jù)庫,查閱自己喜愛的樂隊的圖片和他們的演出時間表,或去國外周游一圈?,F(xiàn)在每天都會增加上千種新的服務(wù)鏈接,萬維網(wǎng)已經(jīng)飛速發(fā)展起來了。