World Wide Web (WWW)

The World Wide Web (WWW) is the perhaps the most important component that moved the internet from scientists and research organizations to people's homes.

World Wide Web (WWW)

It offers smooth and easy to use graphical interface to access information available on internet and it is considered as synonymous of internet.

The WWW is distributed file management system with programs to access and send information.

The clients to WWW are internet browsers that help to connect to a website server, request a web page and format the received content for display.

The fundamental unit of web page. The web page is a text document developed using HTML that contains links to other web pages, graphics and audio files, and other internet services such as Email.

Web pages reside on web server and can be accessed with the help of internet browsers. Some of the popular internet browsers are : Apple's Safari, Google Chrome, Opera, Netscape etc.