What is the World Wide Web and what makes it work?

The WWW incorporates all the internet services above and much more. You retrieve documents, view images, animation and video, listen to sound files, speak and hear voice, and view programs that run on practically any software in the world, providing your computer has the hardware and software to do these things.

When you log on to the internet using a web browser (e.g., Internet explorer, fire fox, Mozilla, Netscape, opera, safari), you are viewing documents on the World Wide Web. The basic foundation on which the WWW function is the programing language called HTML. It is HTML and other programming embedded within HTML that make possible hypertext .Hypertext is the ability to have web page containing links, which are areas in a page or button or graphics on which you can click your mouse button to retrieve another document into your computer .This ‘’click ability using Hypertext links is the features, which is unique and revolutionary about the web.

How do hypertext links work?

Every document or file or site or movie or sound file or anything you find on the Web has a unique URL (uniform resource locator) that identifies what computer the thing is on, where it s within that computer,and its specific file name.(More explanation on the structure of URL,s.)Every hypertext link on every web page in the world contain one of the URL,s. when you click on a link of any kind on a web page, you sent a request to retrieve the unique document on some computer in the world that is uniquely identified by that URL,.URL,s are like addresses of web pages. A whole cluster of internationally accepted standards (such as TCP/IP and HTML) make possible this global information retrieval phenomenon that transcends all political and language boundaries.