WWW Full Form

World Wide Web or WWW is a catalogue of an order of all websites connected to the worldwide Internet. The WWW is an information system where the linked hypertext data and resources are accessed over the internet. A user can access a web page using a web browser and navigate between the web pages using hyperlinks where texts, images, and other multimedia data and content can be carried on a website page.

World Wide Web: Protocols Used

WWW uses three protocols, namely

1. Uniform resource locator (URLs)
2. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
3. Hypertext markup language (HTML)

World Wide Web: History

• The development of the World Wide Web was begun in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN, an international scientific organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. The HTTP protocol was created by them which standardized server-client communication. Their text-based Web browser was made available for publication in January 1992.
• Set up by Marc Andreessen and others at the National Center for Supercomputing, the World Wide Web quickly gained recognition with the development of a web browser called Mosaic at the University of Illinois in the United States and launched in September 1993.
• Andreessen co-founded Netscape Communications Corporation, in April 1994. Soon after its launch, Netscape Navigator became a powerful Web browser.
• Microsoft Corporation, a giant software company, 1995, established its own Internet Explorer (IE) browser. Internet Explorer was incorporated into the Windows operating system in 1996 and IE shortly became a popular Web browser.
• Mozilla’s Firefox, launched in 2004 was the first real competitor to IE.
• Google Chrome was launched in 2008. By 2013, Chrome had become a powerful browser compared to IE and Firefox. In 2015, Microsoft replaced IE with Edge.

Advantages

• Assisting you with your studies.
• Doing grocery and other shopping online.
• Contacting relatives and friends.

Disadvantages

• The pages could be misleading and may steal your data or cash.
• Harassment, abuse, racism, etc. are common nowadays.