The World Wide Web (World Wide Web)
What is the World Wide Web (WWW)?
WWW is the abbreviation of World Wide Web (Global Information Network), or it is also known as web, Chinese name is "World Wide Web". The entire Web is a computer network throughout the world. All computers in the Web can connect with each other. The communication protocol used by these computers is called the HTTP protocol.
How does the World Wide Web work?
The document that stores web information is called a web page. The computer that stores the web page is called a web server. The computer that reads the web page on the web server is called the client. The software used to view the web page is called a web browser. The popular browser has Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.
How does the browser get a web page?
The browser gets a web page by sending a request to the web server. This request is a standard HTTP request contains the address of the web page. The address of a web page should look like this: http://www.someone.com/page.htm.
How does the browser show this page?
All web pages contain instructions showing content. The browser displays this page by reading these instructions. These public instructions are called HTML tags. HTML tags look like this:
this is a paragraph .
Who has developed these instructions (HTML) standards?
The Web standard is not made by Netscape or Microsoft. This web standard is made by W3C. The full name of W3C is World Wide Web Consortium. W3C Develop specifications for web standards. The most basic Web standard is HTML, CSS, and XML. The final HTML standard is XHTML 1.0.
This article is translated from http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_www.asp, is a HTML tutorial.
