Web

File Format
Name	Web
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Web
Released	1990

Formats connected with the World Wide Web, though most of them overlap into other categories; basically everything that can be put in a file format of any sort can be put on the Web, and a multiplicity of types of documents, graphics, audio, video, markup, programming languages, and more, are used there. The Web is a variety of HyperMedia, by far the most successful one.

Blogging and web hosting platforms

• Blogger
• Posterous
• WordPress
• Xanga

Development software

• Dreamweaver site settings file (.ste)

Feeds, syndication, and metadata

• Atom (syndication format)
• hAtom (Microformats)
• hListing (Microformats; product/service listings)
• hMedia (Microformats; image/video/audio metadata)
• hNews (Microformats; news articles)
• hResume (Microformats; resumes/CVs)
• hReview (Microformats; ratings/reviews)
• RSS

Markup, documents and data

• BBCode
• Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• HTML/XHTML
• Markdown
• MHTML
• Wiki markup
• WML
• WOFF

Miscellaneous

• Canonical Link Relation (rel="canonical")
• Favicon
• Mark of the Web
• rel-author (Microformats; link to author homepage)
• rel-home (Microformats; link to site homepage)
• rel-license (Microformats; link to site license)
• rel-nofollow (Microformats; gets robots to ignore link)
• rel-payment (Microformats; link to payment method)
• rel-tag (Microformats)
• Robots Exclusion Standard (robots.txt)
• Sitemap
• URL shorteners

Program/system-specific files (browser/server/OS/etc)

General

• Web browser files (bookmarks, cookies, configurations, etc.)
• Web server files (server configuration, etc.)

Specific

• Internet Shortcut (Windows)
• webarchive (HTML packaging format used by Apple Safari)
• Webloc (Mac OS X)

Protocols and parameters

• Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• DNS
• Domain name
• Gopher
• HTTP
• IP address
• IPV6
• JSON API
• Mime-type
• SOAP
• TCP/IP
• Tor
• URLs (and URIs, URNs, etc.)
• WAP

Scripts/Applets/Plug-Ins

• ActiveX
• JavaScript / ECMAScript
• Open Web App Manifest (.webapp)
• VBScript
• WMLScript

See also

See also E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums (a number of web-based messaging/social-networking things are there)

External links

History

• Arthur C. Clarke predicts computers and the Internet in 1974
• Tim Berners-Lee discusses Web protocols/formats in Jan 1992
• What the Internet looked like in 1995
• 1996 Internet Step-By-Step Guide video
• 1997 "Kids' Guide to the Internet" video
• 1998: prognosticator predicts "By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's"
• First posts on famous websites
• Internet Archaeology: Behold the Most Hilarious Abandoned Websites

Privacy and security

• Paranoid Browsing plug-in
• Justdelete.me: Delete your account on lots of web services
• Throw off the spooks by disguising your web traffic

Commentary

• How to search the Web like the NSA
• If I could, I would repeal the Internet
• Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet
• W3C statement about adding DRM/content protection to web standards

Other

• Mozilla's Web Literacy Standard
• Chasing the Cicada: Exploring the Darkest Corridors of the Internet
• The average lifespan of a webpage
• The Conservatives' website purge has destroyed history
• Front end of gov.uk site, downloadable from Github