What is a website?
 A website is defined as a set of files and related resources that can be accessed across the World Wide Web. These files and resources are organized and collected under one domain name. Between documents, images, text, and other types of files

The name of the Site does not imply that it is located in a particular physical location; Where the website resides on what are known as web servers that are actually spread in different locations of the world, and the website can consist of an HTML file or thousands of related files.

The website is accessed over the Internet using one of the web browsers available on the user's device, where he enters the URL address of the site within the browser address bar to go to it

In the event that you do not know the address (URL) of a particular site; It is possible to search for this site using one of the search engines on the Internet, and it is worth noting that the websites are owned by individuals, companies, or certain institutions, as well as managed by those parties.

History of websites
 The history of the appearance of the first website in the world dates back to August 6, 1991, when British physicist Tim Berners-Lee launched the website (info.cern.ch) during his development of the World Wide Web.

Where Berners earlier developed a set of key technologies that are considered the basis of the emergence of the Web; Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), as well as what are known as web addresses (URLs), and it is worth noting that all of these technologies were developed using the Next computer that was developed by Steve Jobs.

Berners-Lee refused to be credited with inventing the World Wide Web, by refusing to patent a patent in his name after its invention, as he wanted this great invention to be a public property for everyone to be able to develop and improve quickly

The year 1993 witnessed the release of the first web browser that could be used by the general public, which was known as (Mosaic), and the subsequent years witnessed the launch of many different sites; Like Yahoo, Amazon, and many other sites.

The emergence and launch of websites continued with a very rapid acceleration, as the number of websites on the Internet in the year 2004 AD reached approximately 51 million websites, and currently there are more than 1.7 billion different websites on the Internet, and every new day 570 are launched A new site.

Note: The first website in history (info.cern.ch) can be accessed with information on the project of the World Wide Web that was invented at the time of the website's launch.

The difference between a website and a web page
There is a difference between a website and what is known as a web page, as websites include a group of different web pages that are interconnected with each other and that come together under one domain name, which is the domain name of the website.

The web pages within the website are accessed through hyperlinks located across the site, and all the web pages across a particular site contain files related to the same site, and web pages can use a single name that brings them all together, but those pages must be present in Different documents have different URLs.

There are many differences and differences between websites and web pages, and among these differences are the following:
Web pages are a smaller part of any website that includes content and hyperlinks to other web pages. All web pages across a particular website are associated with a unique and unique domain name for the website.

The web pages depend on the website for their continued existence. If the website does not continue to function, all the web pages linked to it will cease to exist. A web page contains specific content itself, while a website contains many other types of files.

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