World+Wide+Web

Defenition: A system of extensively interlinked hypertext documents: a branch of the Internet. Abbreviation: (Source: [|Dictionary .com]) ** History: ** In March 1989, [|Tim Berners-Lee] wrote a proposal that referenced enquire a database and software project he built in 1980 and described a more elaborate information management system. With help from [|Rober Cailliau], he published a more formal proposal (on November 12, 1990) to build a Hupertext project called WORLD WIDE WEB ** About WWW: ** The World Wide Web is a complete set of documents residing on all [|Internet] servers that use the [|HTTP] protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system. People use the World Wide Web to find useful information or just to look up information they are curious about. Now more than ever people use the World Wide Web, we are more dependent on [|technology] than any other generation before us. It is a [|network] of information found on the [|Internet] in the form of web “sites.” Each site contains multiple pages of information and may include text, sound, pictures, images, and even video.
 * World Wide Web: noun **

"The World Wide Web is the universe of network-accessible information, an embodiment of human knowledge." -Tim Berners-Lee