What is the World Wide Web? |
What is the World Wide Web?
You may have seen the "www" prefixed to any website address. The full form of "www" is "World Wide Web." It is the most widely used service on the Internet.
It connects many web servers and clients together.
It is also called WWW, W3, or Web.
The "www" was invented in 1989 by the British scientist team Berners-Lee.
It refers to hypermedia using Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML).
The WWW is an information space where documents and other resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
These are interlinked through hypertext and accessible via the Internet.
When a website's URL is preceded by "www" in the browser's address bar, it means that the website is stored on a web server connected to the web, so www is used to access it.
The www is a vast network where hypertext files and web pages are linked together.
Four main technologies are used to run the World Wide Web: URL, HTTP, HTML, and web browsers.