World Wide Web

Invented By : Tim Berners-Lee

• Is a system of

interlinked hypertext documents

• Accessed via the Internet with a web

browser

• Web pages contain

text, images, videos, and

other multimedia.

1989-1990 – Tim Berners-Lee invents the World

Wide Web at CERN

Means for transferring text and graphics

simultaneously

Client/Server data transfer protocol

Communication via application level protocol

System ran on top of standard networking infrastructure

Text mark up language

Not invented by Bernes-Lee

Simple and easy to use

Requires a client application to render text/graphics

• Mainly free information

• Low cost of initial connection

• Rapid interactive communication

• Facilitates the exchange of huge volumes of data

• Accesible from anywhere

• Has become the global media

• Danger of overload and excess information

• Difficult to filter and prioritize informationinformation

• No guarantee of finding what one is looking for

• No regulation

• No quality control over available data

Internet

• The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks.

• Its access is provided by ISPs.

• It runs applications like www, ftp, html etc

World Wide Web

• Web is collection of text documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs

• Usually accessed by web browsers

• Its an application running on Internet

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