WWW
World Wide Web (network of information resources)
HTML
HyperText Markup Language
current version: 4.01
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4
HTTP
HyperText Transport Protocol
Web Server uses port 80 by default
Web Browser
interprets HTML text files and presents it to the user, also known as a User Agent
More basic information at HTML for Scientists

A very basic web page:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
   <HEAD>
      <TITLE>My first HTML document</TITLE>
   </HEAD>
   <BODY>
      <P>Hello world!</P>
   </BODY>
</HTML>
View page in web browser:
	http://serine.umdnj.edu/~golharam/5004/helloword.html
View page in telnet session:
	telnet serine.umdnj.edu 80
	GET /~golharam/5004/helloworld.html HTTP/1.0^M^M

More advanced HTML document

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
   "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<HTML>
   <HEAD>
      <TITLE>My first HTML document</TITLE>
   </HEAD>
   <BODY>
	<H1>HTML is easy to learn</H1>
	<P>Welcome to the world of HTML.  This is the first paragraph.  While short, it is still a paragraph!</P>
	<P>And this is the second paragraph.</P>
   </BODY>
</HTML>
<HTML>
Defines the whole document
<HEAD>
Defines the first part of your document including the title
<TITLE>
Title of the document
<BODY>
Body of the document
Headings:
HTML has 6 level of heading from 1 to 6. Displayed in larger and/or bold fonts than normal text. Syntax is:

		<Hx>Text of heading</Hx> where x=1 to 6.
Some more tags:
<P> - Paragraphs
<BR> - Line break
<PRE> - Pre-formatted text

	Here is pre-formatted text that I do 
	not want the browser to re-format.  
	ACGT
	|| |
	ACCT

Lists

Unordered Lists:

<ul>
	<li>Item 1</li>
	<li>Item 2</li>
	<li>Item 3</li>
</ul>
Ordered Lists:
  1. Item 1
  2. Item 2
  3. Item 3
<ol>
	<li>Item 1</li>
	<li>Item 2</li>
	<li>Item 3</li>
</ol>
Definition Lists:
WWW
World Wide Web
HTML
HyperText Markup Language
HTTP
HyperText Transport Protocol
<DL>
	<DT>WWW</DT>
	<DD>World Wide Web</DD>
	<DT>HTML</DT>
	<DD>HyperText Markup Language</DD>
	<DT>HTTP</DT>
	<DD>HyperText Transport Protocol</DD>
</DL>

Symbols:

<
&lt;
>
&gt;
&
&amp;
Horizontal Line - <hr>
Bold - <b>
Italics - <i>