INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)

CONTENT

1. Definition of the World Wide Web
2. Brief History of the World Wide Web
3. Some Contributions of Nigerians to the Internet
4. Basic Terminologies of the World Wide Web
5. Protocols
6. Benefits of the World Wide Web
7. Navigating through Websites (Practical)

Definition of World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (“www” or simply the “Web“) is a global information medium which users can read and write via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet itself, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as e-mail also does. It is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed through the internet, by an application called a browser.

It is a network service used in accessing, manipulating, and downloading a very large set of interlinked hypertext document and other files located on computers connected through the internet.

The World Wide Web can also be defined as a system of interconnection of several computers all over the world; forming a web-like networked structure.