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

• Apache HTTP Server
• Blog
• Change detection and notification
• Content delivery network
• Domain Name System
• HTML
• Hyperlink
• Hypertext
• Information system
• Internet
• Web application
• Web browser
• Web page
• Web server
• Web service
• Website

External links

• World Wide Web @ Wikipedia.org