What is World Wide Web (WWW)?

WWW is a software application that makes it easy and possible for nearly anyone to publish and browse documents on the Internet. The web has developed a huge following because of its ease of use and visual appeal. It is called a web.

The Internet can be thought of as a very large group of networked computers. The information on the web is transported over the Internet. The web therefore uses the Internet. In fact the web is now the driving force behind the Internet. The web generates the greatest traffic demands on the Internet and new Internet technology is being developed to meet the needs and wishes of web users.

 One of the ways of accessing information of the net is through world wide web. The web is basically a bunch of resources linked together with the hyper text points that allows the user to move from one another on the net. WWW is the latest, fastest growing activity on the internet. You can retrieve documents, view images, animation and listen to sound files.

The linking of one page related to another subsidiary topic is called hyper link. WWW means collection of documents known as HTML pages integrated with hyper links the web pages are created by using special language called HTML.

The web runs on the HTTP protocol. Browsers are multi protocol, which means they can talk to many different kinds of resources that make up the Internet and the number of protocols being included in browsers is steadily increasing.

The central idea in a development of the web was the Uniform Resource Locator (URL). URL is a web address that uniquely identifies a document on the web. Such a document can be an image, an HTML, program etc. Unique addresses makes linking to anyone’s web documents possible.