What is the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a Internet hypertext system.  On 6^th August 1991 it was globally released for general use.  To use the World Wide Web is a web browser, which fetches the data from the Web server and displays it on the screen. The user can follow the links in the document that refer to other documents, whether they are stored on the same Web server or another.

This results in a global network of websites. The following hyperlinks are often referred to as Internet surfing.  The WWW is in common parlance often equated with the Internet, although it is younger and is only one possible use of the Internet. There are other Internet services that are not integrated into the WWW (the best known is e-mail, but for example, IRC and telnet).

The Web was created in 1989 as a project at CERN in Geneva (Switzerland), in which Tim Berners-Lee built a hypertext system. The original aim of the scheme was to share research results in a simple manner with colleagues.  One method of doing this was also the “interweaving” of scientific articles – that is creating a web.

The World Wide Web is different from the then hypertext systems (Grade code example used a simple and readable syntax).  The WWW required only unidirectional links rather than a bidirectional setting, which allows everyone to add a link to a resource, without the owner having to intervene.  Moreover, unlike other protocols, such as HyperCard or Gopher, it builds on the free World Wide Web, a log, which made available the development of servers and clients without the restrictions of licenses.
Tim Berners-Lee called the first web viewer (which he completed in autumn 1990 on a NeXT computer, and wrote more of a hybrid browser-editor) was simply “WorldWideWeb.”  Later, he called it the World Wide Web.  It could then display only text, but later browsers such as Pei Wei Viola (1992) added the ability to display graphics.

Marc Andreessen of NCSA published in 1993, a browser called “Mosaic for X”, which soon brought the Web and even the entire Internet popularity to another level beyond the existing user communities and saw explosive growth.  Marc Andreessen founded the company “Mosaic Communications Corporation”, later called “Netscape Communications”.  Meanwhile, modern browsers can also play additional features such as dynamic content, music and animations.