The World Wide Web
a distributed hypertext-based information system developed at
CERN,
is a globally interconnected network of hypermedia information
based on
A uniform addressing scheme for locating resources on the Web
(e.g., URLs).
Protocols,
for access to named resources over the Web
(e.g., HTTP).
Hypertext, for easy navigation among resources (e.g. HyperText Markup Language or HTML, a
standard format for describing the structure of documents for transmission
of hypermedia documents). HTML documents are ASCII files with
embedded codes for logical markup, format (text styles, document titles,
paragraphs, tables) and hyperlinks.
WWW also interfaces with other
standard protocols (FTP, Telnet, NNTP,
WAIS, gopher, ...) and their data formats.
According to Tim Berners-
Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, "The Web was designed to be a
universal space of information, so when you make a bookmark or a hypertext
link, you should be able to make that link to absolutely any piece of
information that can be accessed using networks. The universality is
essential to the Web: it looses its power if there are certain types of
things to which you can’t link."
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) exists as a place for those companies
for whom the Web is essential to meet and agree on the common underpinnings
that will allow everyone to go forward. (There are currently over 230
member organisations.)
About the World-Wide Web
This article introduces the basic concepts of the World Wide Web,
and also tells a couple of personal stories about my encounters
with the creators of the web...
by
Robert Hopkins, Jr.,
President, Weblations.
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