WWW stands for World Wide Web. It is a system of interconnected public webpages and resources accessible via the Internet, using hyperlinks to link documents and multimedia content across the globe
. The World Wide Web was invented by British computer scientist Tim Berners- Lee in 1989 at CERN to enable easy sharing of information over the Internet
. It operates through protocols like HTTP and uses web browsers to access web pages formatted mainly in HTML
. Importantly, the World Wide Web is not the same as the Internet; rather, it is one of the many services that run on the Internet infrastructure
. The "www" you see in URLs is a subdomain traditionally used to indicate that the address points to content on the World Wide Web
. In summary:
- WWW = World Wide Web
- Invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee
- A system of linked web pages accessible over the Internet
- Uses HTTP protocol and HTML documents
- Different from the Internet itself, which is the underlying network
