What are the “internet” and the “world wide web?”?
A major service on the Internet. To understand exactly how the Web relates to the Internet, see Web vs. Internet. The World Wide Web is made up of “Web servers” that store and disseminate “Web pages,” which are “rich” documents that contain text, graphics, animations and videos to anyone with an Internet connection. The heart of the Web technology is the hyperlink, which connects each document to each other by its “URL” address, whether locally or in another country. “Click here” caused the Web to explode in the mid-1990s, turning the Internet into the largest shopping mall and information source in the world. It also enabled the concept of a “global server” that provides a source for all applications and data (see Web 2.0). The Browser Web pages are accessed by the user via a Web browser application such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, Safari, Opera and Firefox. The browser renders the pages on screen, executes embedded scripts and automatically invokes additional software as needed.
