World Wide Web

Invented By : Tim Berners-Lee

• Is a system of
interlinked hypertext documents
• Accessed via the Internet with a web
browser
• Web pages contain text, images, videos,
and other multimedia.
 1989-1990 – Tim Berners-Lee invents the World
Wide Web at CERN
 Means for transferring text and graphics
simultaneously
 Client/Server data transfer protocol
 Communication via application level protocol
 System ran on top of standard networking infrastructure
 Text mark up language
 Not invented by Bernes-Lee
 Simple and easy to use
 Requires a client application to render text/graphics
• Mainly free information
• Low cost of initial
connection
• Rapid interactive
communication
• Facilitates the exchange of
huge volumes of data
• Accesible from anywhere
• Has become the global
media
• Danger of overload and
excess information
• Difficult to filter and
prioritize information
information
• No guarantee of finding
what one is looking for
• No regulation
• No quality control over
available data
 Internet World Wide Web
• The Internet is a global • Web is collection of text
system of documents and other
interconnected resources, linked by
computer networks. hyperlinks and URLs
• Its access is provided by • Usually accessed
ISPs. by web browsers
• It runs applications like • Its an application
www, ftp, html etc running on Internet
Made By:
Aayush
Siddarth
Akhil
Shlok
Jinay