The incredibly huge collection of HTML documents existing on servers connected to the Internet These documents use hyperlinks to connect to other documents, other servers, or to programs on either the local computer or the server, creating a big tangle of information that has become known as the "World Wide Web " See HTML, hyperlinks Note: The "World Wide Web" and the "Internet" and not synonymous The World Wide Web is part of the Internet, but the Internet is much more than the World Wide Web
The World Wide Web is an Internet protocol that makes use of the HTML, hypertext, and hypermedia to create pages with links to other pages WWW pages can include graphics, audio, and video as well as text See the WWW FAQ and the Internet History for more information
The web allows computer users to access information across systems around the world using URLs to identify files and systems and hypertext links to move between files on the same or different systems The web is a client/server information system that supports the retrieval of data in the form of text, graphics and multimedia in a uniform HTML format Allowing hypertext links and interactivity on an unprecedented level, its introduction transformed a sleepy, academic communications system into a powerful marketing tool linking businesses and customers around the world
A graphical interface for the Internet, composed of Internet servers that provide access to documents that in turn provide hyperlinks to other documents, multimedia files, and sites
A system of Internet hosts that support documents formatted in HTML, which contain links to other documents (hyperlinks), and to audio, video, and graphics images Users can access the Web with special applications called browsers, such as Netscape® Navigator® and Microsoft® Internet Explorer®
Long for WWW, a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents The documents are formatted in a script called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files This means you can jump from one document to another simply by clicking on hot spots Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web
A network of information, as a part of the Internet, that includes text, graphic, sound and moving images Also known as the Web, WWW, or W(3) It incorporates a variety of Internet tools into one method of access, such as the Web browsers Netscape or Internet Explorer (See also Internet)
An Internet client-server hypertext distributed information retrieval system that originated from the CERN High-Energy Physics laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland On the WWW everything (documents, menus, indexes) is represented to the user as a hypertext object in HTML format Hypertext links refer to other documents by their URLs These can refer to local or remote resources accessible by FTP, Gopher, Telnet, or news, as well as those available by means of the HTTP protocol used to transfer hypertext documents The client program (known as a browser) runs on the user's computer and provides two basic navigation operations: to follow a link or to send a query to a server
The collection of all the resources (HTML documents, images, and other files, as well as CGI interface programs) accessible on the Internet mainly via HTTP but also via older protocols and mechanisms, such as FTP or Gopher, which are supported by most web browsers The emergence of web browsers has made access to these resources achievable to a broad base of users beyond the more technically savvy traditional users of the Internet who relied on less user-friendly access tools than currently available browsers Often referred to as "the Web," WWW or W3
Often referred to as WWW or the Web, this usually refers to information available on the Internet that can be easily accessed with software usually called a "browser " Organizations publish their information on the Web in a format known as HTML; this information is usually referred to as their "home page" or "web site"
A client-server software package which uses hypertext to organize, connect, and present information and services throughout the Internet A hypertext-based system for finding and accessing Internet resources
A hypertext-based system that allows you to browse through a variety of linked Internet resources organized by colorful, graphics-oriented home pages
Also known as the Web, the World Wide Web is a graphical interface to Internet resources Web refers to the set of hypermedia pages accessible via the Internet
Also known as WWW or W3, the World Wide Web is a hypertext-based Internet service used for browsing Internet resources To the Top
An interconnected set of hypertext documents located throughout the Internet The documents are kept on computers called servers, which can send the documents to your computer As of late 1996 the World Wide Web contains over 30,000,000 documents It is also refered to as the WWW and sometimes just as "The Web"
The World Wide Web is a collection of electronic documents, or "pages," that can be viewed on your computer using a Web browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer Although many people think of the World Wide Web and the Internet as the same thing, the Web is actually only part of the Internet See Using the World Wide Web
The hypermedia document presentation system that can be accessed over the Internet using software called a Web browser [San Diego State University] A Web browser (also known as a Web client program) is software that allows users to access and view HTML documents (e g , Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx, WinWeb, MacWeb) [San Diego State University]
computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
An interconnected network of electronic hypermedia documents available on the Internet WWW documents are marked up in HTML Cross references or hyperlinks between documents are recorded in the form of URLs
A hypermedia-based system for browsing Internet sites It is named the Web because it is made of many sites linked together; users can travel from one site to another by clicking on hyperlinks Or "The World Wide Web is the universe of network-accessible information, an embodiment of human knowledge " - Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web