WWW Full Form

WWW is commonly called the WEB. English engineer and computer scientist Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote his first web browser in 1990 while being employed at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. The browser was excluded from CERN in 1991, first in other research centers in January 1991 and then in the general public in August 1991.

What is the full form of WWW?

The full form of www is World Wide Web. It is a system that is used to store documents and is accessed using URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) which are accessible through the Internet. These documents are transferred using HTTP requests and can be viewed using software called WEB browser.

History of WWW

• Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization, in Switzerland, began developing the World Wide Web in 1989. Created the HTTP protocol which standardized server-client communication.
• In January 1992, their text-based Web browser was made available for publication.
• The initial launch was made between 1991-1994.
• The World Wide Web(www) quickly gained recognition with the development of a web browser called Mosaic, set up by Marc Andreessen and others at the National Center.
• In 1995, Microsoft Corporation established its own Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
• In 1996 IE was incorporated into the Windows operating system and IE shortly became a popular Web browser.
• Google launched Chrome in 2008. Compared to IE and Firefox, Chrome had become a more powerful browser.
• In 2015, Microsoft discontinued IE replacing it with Edge.

. As soon as we enter the URL in the search bar WWW comes into play and locates the web page.

Facts about WWW

1. World’s first website is still online: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
2. The first image uploaded for testing WWW:
3. Before named as “Web” Berners-Lee thought of names “Information Mesh”, “The Information Mine”, and “Mine of Information”.
4. The system on which program code was written was NeXt which was developed by Steve Jobs.
5. The WWW was made available to everyone for free in 1993.

Features of WWW

1. It is a cross-platform system that is compatible with various devices.
2. It is a system that stores hypertext (Hypertext is a text which contains “links” to other texts) information.
3. It is a distributed system spread among various websites.
4. It is open source.

Difference between WWW and the Internet

Internet is a collection of interconnected devices whereas WWW is a system that is used to store hypertext. Using the Internet we can access these documents. WWW is a collection of servers that store hypertext.

The basic client-server model is used to access a web page. Server store webpages and clients request that web page by providing

The basic client-server model is used to access a web page. The server store webpages and client request that web page by providing Uniform Resource Locator (URL). As soon as we enter the URL in the search bar WWW comes into play and locates the web page.

FAQs on www

Q1. What is the full form of WWW and who made it?

Answer-

The full form for www is World Wide Web and Tim Berners Lee made it in 1989.

Q2. What is the full form of HTML?

Answer –

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It is a standard markup language used to design the documents displayed in the browsers as a web page.

Q3. Who named www as World Wide Web?

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Tim Berners Lee made and named www as World Wide Web.

Q4. What is net internet?

Answer-

Net, is a worldwide system of computer networks — a network of networks in which users at any one computer can get information from any other computer.