WWF an international charity organization, formerly called the World Wildlife Fund, which supports conservation (=protection of wild plants, animals, and natural areas of land)
The World Wide Web is a computer system which links documents and pictures into a database that is stored in computers in many different parts of the world and that people everywhere can use. The abbreviations WWW and the Web are often used. The complete set of documents residing on all Internet servers that use the HTTP protocol, accessible to users via a simple point-and-click system. WWW the web = the Internet. or Web Leading information-exchange service of the Internet. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN and introduced to the world in 1991. The Web gives users access to a vast array of documents that are connected to each other by means of hypertext or hyperlinks. A hypertext document with its corresponding text and hyperlinks is written in HTML and is assigned an on-line address, or URL. The Web operates within the Internet's basic client-server architecture. Individual HTML files with unique electronic addresses are called Web pages, and a collection of Web pages and related files (such as graphics files, scripted programs, and other resources) sharing a set of similar addresses (see domain name) is called a Web site. The main or introductory page of a Web site is usually called the site's home page. Users may access any page by typing in the appropriate address, search for pages related to a topic of interest by using a search engine, or move quickly between pages by clicking on hyperlinks incorporated into them. Though introduced in 1991, the Web did not become truly popular until the introduction of Mosaic, a browser with a graphical interface, in 1993. Subsequently, browsers produced by Netscape and Microsoft have become predominant
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
The World Wide Web is a part of the Internet It started out as a small part, but has grown to be the largest The World Wide Web generally refers to the collection of hyperlinked web pages Like most internet definitions, this one is quite fuzzy and full of exceptions
Loosely used, the WWW (or Web) refers to the whole constellation of resources that can be accessed using gopher, FTP, HTTP, Telnet, Usenet, WAIS, and some other tools The WWW is a hypertext-based, distributed information system originally created by researchers at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, to facilitate sharing research information The Web presents the user with documents, called web pages, full of links to other documents or information systems Selecting one of these links, the user can access more information about a particular topic Web pages include text as well as multimedia (images, video, animation, sound) Servers are connected to the Internet to allow users to traverse ("surf") the Web using a Web browser
A revolutionary browsing system that allows point-and-click navigation of the Internet The Web is a spiderweb-like interconnection of millions of pieces of information located on computers around the world Web documents use hypertext, which incorporates text and graphical links to other documents and files on Internet-connected computers
A hypertext-based, distributed information system in which users may create, edit, or browse hypertext documents A graphical document publishing and retrieval medium; a collection of linked documents that reside on the Internet
(WWW or "Web") - A system of Internet servers that uses HTTP to transfer specially formatted documents The documents are formatted in a language called HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files One can jump from one document to another simply by clicking on hyperlinks Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web
What you are looking at now Often shortened to "WWW" (sometimes pronouced "wuh-wuh-wuh" because it's faster to say than "double you double you double you") or simply "Web": a multi-media, hypertext-based information system on the Internet, designed to be user-friendly and accessible Widely seen as the most exciting part of the Internet because of its visual attractiveness, its increasing interactivity and its potential for future development
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"
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
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
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
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