WWW (World Wide Web)

WWW (World Wide Web)

The WWW (World Wide Web) is combination of all resources and users on the Internet that are using the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). The Web, or World Wide Web (W3), is basically a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a markup language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files.

This means you can jump from one document to another simply by clicking on hot spots. Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web. There are several applications called Web browsers that make it easy to access the World Wide Web; Two of the most popular being Firefox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Chrome.

On March 12, 1989 British physicist Tim Berners-Lee, working for Europe's physics lab CERN, proposed a decentralised system of information management. It signalled the birth of the World Wide Web that is now used by billions of people.

Tim Berners-Lee, (born June 8, 1955, London, England), British computer scientist is the inventor of the Web and the director of the W3C, the organization that oversees its development. Berners-Lee developed hypertext, the method of instant cross-referencing that supports communications on the Web, making it easy to link content on one web page to content located elsewhere. The introduction of hypertext revolutionized the way people used the internet.

The WWW (World Wide Web) has been widely available since 1991.

In 1989, Berners-Lee began work on the first World Wide Web server at CERN. He called the server "httpd” and dubbed the first client "WWW.” Originally, WWW was just a WYSIWYG hypertext browser/editor that ran in the NeXTStep environment.

In 2001 Berners-Lee became a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has been the recipient of several international awards. He was awarded a knighthood by H.M. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize (€1 million) by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation in 2004 and also in 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit.

He is Director of the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), a Web standards organization founded in 1994 that develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. He is a founding Director of the WST (Web Science Trust) launched in 2009 to promote research and education in Web Science, the multidisciplinary study of humanity connected by technology.