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World Wide Web (WWW)


The World Wide Web (WWW), often called the Web, is a system of interconnected
webpages and information that you can access using the Internet. It was created to help
people share and find information easily, using links that connect different pages together.
The Web allows us to browse websites, watch videos, shop online, and connect with others
around the world through our computers and phones.
All public websites or web pages that people may access on their local computers and other
devices through the internet are collectively known as the World Wide Web or W3. Users can
get further information by navigating to links interconnecting these pages and documents.
This data may be presented in text, picture, audio, or video formats on the internet.

What is WWW?

WWW stands for World Wide Web and is commonly known as the Web. The WWW was
started by CERN in 1989. WWW is defined as the collection of different websites around the
world, containing different information shared via local servers(or computers).
Web pages are linked together using hyperlinks which are HTML-formatted and, also
referred to as hypertext, these are the fundamental units of the Internet and are accessed
through Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP). Such digital connections, or links, allow users
to easily access desired information by connecting relevant pieces of information. The benefit
of hypertext is it allows you to pick a word or phrase from the text and click on other sites
that have more information about it.

System Architecture
From the user’s point of view, the web consists of a vast, worldwide connection of
documents or web pages. Each page may contain links to other pages anywhere in the world.
The pages can be retrieved and viewed by using browsers of which internet explorer,
Netscape Navigator, Google Chrome, etc are the popular ones. The browser fetches the page
requested interprets the text and formatting commands on it, and displays the page, properly
formatted, on the screen.
The basic model of how the web works are shown in the figure below. Here the browser is
displaying a web page on the client machine. When the user clicks on a line of text that is
linked to a page on the abd.com server, the browser follows the hyperlink by sending a
message to the abd.com server asking it for the page.
Here the browser displays a web page on the client machine when the user clicks on a line of
text that is linked to a page on abd.com, the browser follows the hyperlink by sending a
message to the abd.com server asking for the page.

Working of WWW

A Web browser is used to access web pages. Web browsers can be defined as programs
which display text, data, pictures, animation and video on the Internet. Hyperlinked resources
on the World Wide Web can be accessed using software interfaces provided by Web
browsers. Initially, Web browsers were used only for surfing the Web but now they have
become more universal.
The below diagram indicates how the Web operates just like client-server architecture of the
internet. When users request web pages or other information, then the web browser of your
system request to the server for the information and then the web server provide requested
services to web browser back and finally the requested service is utilized by the user who
made the request.
Web browsers can be used for several tasks including conducting searches, mailing,
transferring files, and much more. Some of the commonly used browsers are Internet
Explorer, Opera Mini, and Google Chrome.

Features of WWW
 WWW is open source.
 It is a distributed system spread across various websites.
 It is a Hypertext Information System.
 It is Cross-Platform.
 Uses Web Browsers to provide a single interface for many services.
 Dynamic, Interactive and Evolving.

Components of the Web


There are 3 components of the web:
 Uniform Resource Locator (URL): URL serves as a system for resources on the web.
 Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP): HTTP specifies communication of browser
and server.
 Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML): HTML defines the structure, organisation
and content of a web page.

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