The World Wide Web WWW

The World Wide Web WWW

The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and W3 and commonly known as The Web, is a system of interlinked hyper contained on the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypersystems, English physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.[1] He was later joined by Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau while both were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed using "Hyper [...] to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and released that web in December.