By: Shar Ainie A.

Serapion Date: February 20 2012

UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD WIDE WEB

The WORLD WIDE WEB is a system of Internet servers that supports hypertext and multimedia to access several Internet protocols on a single interface. The World Wide Web is often abbreviated as the WEB or WWW. The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by Tim BernersLee of the European Particle Physics Lab (CERN) in Switzerland. The initial purpose of the Web was to use the networked hypertext to facilitate communication among its members, who were located in several countries. Word was soon spread beyond CERN, and a rapid growth in the number of both developers and users ensued. In addition to hypertext, the Web began to incorporate graphics, video, and sound.

PROTOCOLS OF THE WEB

The surface simplicity of the Web comes from the fact that many individual protocols can be contained within a single Web site. INTERNET PROTOCOLS are sets of rules that allow for intermachine communication on the Internet. New protocols are constantly being developed. Voice over Internet Protocols (VoIP) allows users to place a telephone call over the Web.

Some cell phones often used related advanced technologies such as wireless application protocol (WAP) and General Packet Radio Services (GPRS). The Web allows users to view hypertext documents containing text, graphics, animation, sounds and video.

GUI - graphical user interface is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. Because of this feature, and the webs ability to work with multimedia and advanced programming languages, the world wide web has become the faster growing component of the Internet.

Internet refers to the physical network concisting of computer hardwares, cables and satellites and other network devices.