What is WWW

The World Wide Web(WWW) is information organized in the form of Web pages containing text and graphic images. You can retrieve documents, view images, animations and videos; listen to sound files, exchange voice data and view programs that run on practically any software in the world.

It is easy to get the Internet and the Web confused, but they are not the same thing. The Internet is the actual physical network made up of wires, cables and satellites. It connects millions of computers and resources throughout the world. When you connect to this network you are described as being “online”. The Web is a multimedia interface to the resources available on the Internet. This means that web pages consist of multiple media such as text, graphics, video, animation and sound.

The World Wide Web was originally developed in 1990 at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. The World Wide Web Consortium now manages it. The name of its website is http://www.w3.org.

You can access the World Wide Web on the Internet by using any browser application such as Mozilla, Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc. A web page is simply a document formatted in a standard language known as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). It contains hypertext links represented by underlined text and images that lead to related information.

Web pages also can contain special programs called “applets” that are generally written in a programming language such as Java. Java applets are used for presenting animation, displaying graphics, providing interactive games and more.

"Web Surfing" means moving through different web pages. This may be done by following hyperlinks, either from a search or through a series of linked pages. You may even move between pages at random, in the course of learning something, or just having fun.

The information on WWW can be classified in different categories based on the type of their content such as Business and Commercial, Educational, Advocacy (to influence readers to support a cause or idea), News, Statistical Information and Personal Information.