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The World Wide Web (WWW or W3), called "the web" for short, refers to the entire set of [[Hypertext]] documents, available on the Internet, that can be viewed or accessed using a [[Web Browser]]. While the World Wide Web relies upon the [[Internet]] as its infrastructure, the Web and the Internet are different systems. The Internet is the worldwide collection of hardware networks and computers exchanging data according to the standard [[Internet Protocol]]s. The World Wide Web is the huge set of documents, images and other resources that can be accessed on the Internet via [[Hypertext]] links and [[URL]]s. ==Origins of the Web== :''Main article'':[[Web history]] The World Wide Web was launched in 1992 by English physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau, while they were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed building a "web of nodes" storing "hypertext pages" viewed by "browsers" on a network. They released the initial protocol for the web in 1992. ==How it works== (The rest of this page remains to be written.) [[Category:Web Protocols]] [[Category:Draft]]
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