Web
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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
Content management systems
Development software
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
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/Frameworks
- .Net Framework
- ActiveX
- JavaScript / ECMAScript
- Microsoft Silverlight
- 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
- Disconnect: visualize and block invisible websites that track you
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