World Wide Web is a technical definition that all resources and users on the internet are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (H TTP).World Wide Web is normally used as web or WWW. This system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via Internet. With a web browser, one can view Web-page text, images, video and other multimedia and navigate between them through hyperlinks.
The Internet servers support especially in formatting documents on a system. The documents used in formatting a markup language is called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) that supports links to beside other documents, as well as audio and video, graphics, and files. This means one can jump from one document to another just by clicking on hot spots. All Internet servers are not a part of the World Wide Web.
History of the World Wide Web
World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee, to enable flow of information shared among internationally dispersed teams of scientists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland (formerly known by the acronym CERN). Then it became a platform for software development, and the number of networked computers and users grew rapidly to a variety of efforts, including a large business marketplace support. Its further development will be guided through the World Wide Web Consortium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In May 1970 Arthur C. Clarke predicted that one day the satellites would accumulated knowledge of the world to your fingertips, by using the console and would combine with phone features Xerox, small TV and a computer which allowing data transfer and video conferencing worldwide.
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