The World Wide Web (Its Basics and Fundamentals)
Also known as the Web, WWW or W3, the World Wide Web is a subset of the Internet. It is the most interesting part of the Internet, with its ability to work with multimedia and advanced programming languages. It is a system of Internet servers through which several Internet protocols can be accessed using a single interface�your browser. Almost all protocols available on the Internet are available on the Web, thus creating a convenient and user-friendly environment through which email, FTP, Telnet, Usenet News etc. can be accessed.
HTTP or HyperText Transfer Protocol is one of the most famous and popular protocols on the Web. Hypertext documents contain links that connect to other documents or files. Activate these links or ‘hot spots’ through a click of the mouse, and the target document will be transferred to your computer. If it is a web page, it would be displayed in the browser.
HTML or HyperText Markup Language is used to create these ‘hot spots’, which and can be placed as text, pictures etc. A single HyperText document may consist of many such hyperlinks, such that a virtual web of connections can be made from all this “linking.
HTML is used to create web pages. HTML files or web pages are plain text (ASCII) files with a lot of tags�the building blocks of HTML, which help in structuring a document and displaying visual features such as font size, color, italics etc., and are used in creating hyperlinks and embedding images, sounds, video and other multimedia content. In most cases, HTML tags come in pairs, with a starting and a closing tag. Tag names and tag attributes are enclosed in < and > signs.
