WWWGuide - World Wide Web Consortium (World Wide Web)
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WWW - World Wide Web ConsortiumWWW is often called the Web. The World Wide Web (WWW) is a global information sharing system that transmits information over the Internet. The Web is a network of computers around the world, relying mainly on browsers, servers, and protocols (especially the HTTP protocol) to deliver and display information globally. Computers use standard languages to communicate on the Web. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) sets Web standards. |
What is WWW?
The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information system that allows users to access and share various resources over the Internet.
- WWW stands forWorld Wide Web。
- The World Wide Web is often calledthe Web。
- The Web is a network of computers around the world.
- All computers on the Web can communicate with each other.
- All computers use the HTTP communication standard.
How does the World Wide Web work?
- Files that store information are called web pages.
- Web pages are stored on Web servers.
- Computers that read web pages are called Web clients.
- The program used by Web clients to view web pages is called a Web browser.
- Popular browsers include Edge, Chrome, and Firefox, etc.
How does a browser retrieve web pages?
- A browser retrieves web page data from a server through a request.
- A standard HTTP request contains a web page address.
- Web address example:https://www.example.com。
How does a browser display pages?
- All web pages contain instructions on how to display them.
- The browser displays the page by reading these instructions.
- The most common display instructions are called HTML tags.
- The HTML tag for a paragraph is:<p>
- In HTML, a paragraph is defined like this:<p>This is a paragraph.。</p>
Who makes Web standards?
- Web standards are not developed by Google or Microsoft.
- The organization that sets Web rules is W3C.
- W3C stands for the World Wide Web Consortium.
- W3C develops Web standard specifications.
- The most important Web standards are HTML, CSS, and XML.