WWW

=WWW= Author: Alexis Sanchez

WWW stands for World Wide Web. Commonly referred to as The Web, it is a "collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyperlinks and URLs". Most people believe the Web and the Internet to be the same thing but they are different, the Web is a service that runs on the Internet. To view a webpage on the web you would either have to enter a URL, which WWW appears in, or click on a hyperlink to the page that you wish to view. An example would be []. The web browser then initiates a sequence of messages to gather the webpage and present it to your screen. In March 1989, Sir Tim Berners Lee, a British engineer and computer scientist, scribed a plan that would ultimately turn out to be the World Wide Web that we know today. In 1990, He was accompanied by Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist, and together they proposed using "HyperText [...] to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will".