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World Wide Web

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World Wide Web
a system of extensively interlinked hypertext documents: a branch of the Internet. Abbr.: WWW
[1990-95]

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▪ information network
byname  The Web 

      the leading information retrieval service of the Internet (q.v.; the worldwide computer network). The Web gives users access to a vast array of documents that are connected to each other by means of hypertext or hypermedia links—i.e., hyperlinks, electronic connections that link related pieces of information in order to allow a user easy access to them. Hypertext allows the user to select a word from text and and thereby access other documents that contain additional information pertaining to that word; hypermedia documents feature links to images, sounds, animations, and movies. The Web operates within the Internet's basic client-server format; servers are computer programs that store and transmit documents to other computers on the network when asked to, while clients are programs that request documents from a server as the user asks for them. Browser software allows users to view the retrieved documents.

      A hypertext document with its corresponding text and hyperlinks is written in HyperText Markup Language (HTML) (HTML) and is assigned an online address called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

      The development of the World Wide Web was begun in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee (Berners-Lee, Sir Tim) and his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switz. They created a protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which standardized communication between servers and clients. Their text-based Web browser (browser) was made available for general release in January 1992. The World Wide Web gained rapid acceptance with the creation of a Web browser called Mosaic, which was developed in the United States by Marc Andreessen and others at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois (Illinois, University of) and was released in September 1993. Mosaic allowed people using the Web to use the same sort of “point-and-click” graphical manipulations that had been available in personal computers for some years. In April 1994 Andreessen cofounded Netscape Communications Corporation (Netscape Communications Corp.), whose Netscape Navigator became the dominant Web browser soon after its release in December 1994. By the mid-1990s the World Wide Web had millions of active users.

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Universalium. 2010.

  
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