The World Wide Web is replete with various Internet resources and sites, which most often mean the same thing. Internet resources can perform a variety of functions. Therefore, it is worth figuring out what they are.
The concept and emergence of Internet resources
The first site of its kind appeared in 1990, it contained information about the World Wide Web (WWW) technology, the HTTP protocol and their features. Later on this site appeared links to other similar Internet resources, so the first site became the very first Internet directory. The founding father of HTTP, WWW and the creator of what the modern Internet is impossible without was Tim Berners-Lee, an American programmer.
In the modern sense, an Internet resource is a collection of electronic documents or files united by one IP address or domain. All Internet sites (or Internet resources, which is equivalent) are located on servers remote from each other, the association of which is called the World Wide Web. It is she who brings together various pieces of information from the network into a single whole.
Varieties of Internet resources
All of them are divided according to several criteria. First, by the availability of their services. The bottom line is that the resources of a site can be either open and freely available (registration may be required, but not always), or closed. In the latter case, an invite (one-time invitation) or an access fee may be required.
The second criterion by which sites on the network are divided is its location. It can be accessed from the Internet, when absolutely any user can access this resource, or in a local network. In this case, the site's availability is limited to a specific range of IP addresses.
The most difficult criterion by which Internet sites are divided is the scheme for dividing the provision of information to the user. There are so-called Internet portals with a complex hierarchy, consisting of many pages and containing a lot of data. The portal can consist of many interdependent sites, united by a single topic, etc. There are also information resources, most often they are devoted to a specific topic.
Internet representations and web services deserve special attention. The purpose of the former is to provide information to users about a business, company, project, etc. Web services are designed to perform specific tasks within the current technical development of the Internet (hosting, search, message boards, mail services, forums, etc.)
