Monday, February 28, 2011

World Wide Web

The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyper links.

Use hypertext, to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will.

The World Wide Web (W3), was developed to be a pool of human knowledge, and human culture, which would allow collaborators in remote sites to share their ideas and all aspects of a common project.

The terms Internet and World Wide Web are often used in every-day speech without much distinction. However, the Internet and the World Wide Web are not one and the same. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks. In contrast, the Web is one of the services that runs on the Internet. It's a collection of interconnected documents and other resources, linked by hyper links and URLs. In short, the Web is an application running on the Internet.

Viewing a web page on the World Wide Web normally begins by either typing the URL of the page into a web browser, or by following a hyper link to that page or resource. The web browser then initiates a series of communication messages, behind the scenes, in order to fetch and display it.

Yes, for you to access the World Wide Web on the internet, various procedures need to take place, yet we remain impatient with our computer systems, forgetting the time it takes to process our commands. Just because a computer is seen to be like a robot, does not mean it can do everything. We people still control what our systems do and we are obligated to maintain our systems in order to keep up with technological developments.

Computers, the Internet and the World Wide Web are complex creatures and most of us do not know what happens behind the scenes, but we can always learn the basics.

Do hope that you picked up something interesting.

3 comments:

  1. Definitely Tracey! Very enlightening. Where did you get this info from? If you have a link I would like to read up further on it. Gives one a clearer understanding of the differences between the internet and the WWW. I don't think a lot of people understand that, not even I did so thanks for this blog and keep it up. If you have any interesting questions that you think is worthwhile for the RMLers to research would be great!

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  2. Woo!! Tracey, this something which most of us think we know but I realize after reading your blog. Then realize yah, many people like me have used the terms Internet and World Wide Web interchangeably, but in fact the two terms are not synonymous. The Internet and the Web are two separate but related things.

    That is exactly what you indicated some of the informative information you shed and real it’s an eye opener. I personally have been using internet and web exchangeable but after your blog now I am informed thanks.

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