Concept of WWW in Web Technology

History of WWW :

Tim Berners-Lee, in 1980 was investigating how computer could store information with random links. In 1989, while working at European Particle Physics Laboratory, he proposed to idea of global hypertext spaces in which any network-accessible information could be referred to by single "universal Document Identifier". After that in 1990, this idea expanded with further program and Knows as World Wide Web

Concept of WWW :

  • WWW is stand for World Wide Web.
  • The World Wide Web (WWW) is a global information medium which users can read and write via computer connected to the internet.
  • The Web, or World Wide Web, is system of internet servers that support specially formatted documents. 
  • In short, World Wide Web(WWW) is collection of text pages, digital photographs, music files, videos, and animations you can access over the Internet.
  • Web pages are primarily text documents formatted text, web pages may contain images, video and software components that are rendered in the user's web browser as coherent pages of multimedia content.
  • The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used without much distinction.
  • There are several applications called Web browsers that make it easy to access the World Wide Web; For example : Firefox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Chrome Etc.
  • Users access the World-Wide Web facilities via a client called a browser, which provides transparent access to the WWW servers.