The World Wide Web (WWW)

As you now know, the Internet is the physical computer network (CPU, monitor, modem, cables, phone lines, etc). Tim Berners-Lee, a software engineer, invented the World Wide Web in 1991. The Web is a system of Internet servers that support specially-formatted documents. These specially formatted documents are text documents created in HTML, a formatting language. In conjunction with the World Wide Web, your web browser interprets these text documents so they become web pages. Web pages contain formatted text, graphics, sound, animation, and video, allowing point and click navigation. WWW Also called the Web or World Wide Web. Web Browser is A piece of software used to navigate the Web. Internet Explorer and Netscape are web browsers. A GUI (graphical user interface) takes advantage of your computer's graphics (picture) capabilities to increase ease of use. For example, the buttons you point and click to surf the web is part of your web browser's GUI . Most operating systems include a GUI, such as Windows and Mac OS. In the past, there was no pointing and clicking; rather, the user had to know a command language to operate the computer HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is The formatting language used to create web documents. Hypertext is The system of electronically linking words or pictures to other words or pictures.