World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (WWW, W3, "The Web") is an information system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed via the Internet and built on top of the Domain Name System.

Description

Individual document pages on the World Wide Web are called web pages and are accessed with a software application running on the user's computer, commonly called a web browser.

Web pages may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia components, as well as web navigation features consisting of hyperlinks.

See also

• Domain Name System
• HTML
• Hyperlink
• Hypertext
• Information system
• Internet
• Web browser
• Web page
• Web server
• Website

External links

• World Wide Web @ Wikipedia.org