What is the World Wide Web (WWW)?

The World Wide Web is a repository of information linked together through hyperlinks all over the world. As Internet have many services and World Wide Web is one of them. The World Wide Web supports special document that are formatted in HTML. Tim Berners-Lee, an English scientist, invents WWW in 1989. Berners-Lee developed hyperlinks to link web pages. User can easily access these web pages through WWW repository.

The WWW is distributed client server service, in which a client access web pages by web browser. These webpages is stored on server. The web browser sends requests to the server for specific web page using URL. After receiving the request, the server sends requested web pages and then these web pages is displayed on browser screen, it is a short description.