Difference between revisions of "Web"
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| − | The World Wide Web (WWW or W3), called "the web" for short, refers to the entire set of [[ | + | 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]] | + | 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 Suite]]. 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 [[Uniform Resource Locator]]s (URLs). |
==Origins of the Web== | ==Origins of the Web== | ||
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==How it works== | ==How it works== | ||
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| + | [[Category:Web protocols]] | ||
[[Category:Draft]] | [[Category:Draft]] | ||
