Question

Explain and expand 'WWW'.

Answer 1

The expanded form of WWW is the World Wide Web, commonly known as The Web. It is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), which hyperlinks may interlink and are accessible over the Internet.

• Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, began developing the World Wide Web in 1989.
• HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) was established to standardize communication between servers and clients.
• In January 1992, they released their text-based Web browser to the entire public.