Computer Science ICT SSS2 THIRD Term

WEEK 8

INTRODUCTION TO WORLD WIDE WEB (www)

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web, abbreviated as www or w3 and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With the browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks.

Brief History of www

Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, English engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web consortium wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.

At CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau proposed in 1990 to use “Hypertext..... to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will”, and publicly introduced the.... View More