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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.

History of the WWW


It is a project created, by Tim Berner Lee in 1989, for researchers to work together effectively at CERN.
It is an organization, named the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which was developed for further
development of the web. This organization is directed by Tim Berner’s Lee, aka the father of the
web. CERN, where Tim Berners worked, is a community of more than 1700 researchers from more
than 100 countries. These researchers spend a little time on CERN and the rest of the time they work at
their colleges and national research facilities in their home country, so there was a requirement for solid
communication so that they can exchange data.

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.
World Wide Web

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.

Difference Between WWW and Internet:


WWW Internet

It is originated in 1989. It is originated in 1960.

WWW is an interconnected network of


Internet is used to connect a computer with
websites and documents that can be accessed
other computer .
via the Internet.

WWW used protocols such as HTTP Internet used protocols such as TCP/IP

It is based on software. It is based on hardware.

It is a service contained inside an infrastructure. There is a entire infrastructure in internet.

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