WWW Guide - World Wide Web

WWW - World Wide Web Consortium

The WWW is commonly referred to as the network.

The web is a computer network around the world.

Computers communicate using standard language on the Web.

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) developed the Web standards

What is WWW?

• WWW on behalf of the World Wide Web (World Wide Web)
• Often referred to as the World Wide Web network
• The network is a computer network all over the world
• All computers in the network can communicate with each other
• All computers use HTTP communication standards

How does the World Wide Web work?

• The information storage file is called a web page
• Web pages are stored on the web server.
• The computer that reads the web is called a web client
• The program that the web client views the webpage is called a web browser
• Popular browsers are Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox.

How to get web browser?

• A web browser fetches the web page data from the server on request
• The standard HTTP request contains a web address
• Web address example: http://www.w3cschool.cc

How does the browser display the page?

• All pages contain instructions on how to display them
• The browser has read these instructions to display the page.
• The most common display commands are called HTML tags
• The paragraph in the HTML tag is: <p>
• In HTML, a paragraph is defined like this: <p> This is a paragraph . </ p>

Who is doing Web standards?

• Web standards are not what Google or Microsoft are doing
• The agency that made the Web rules is the W3C
• W3C represents the World Wide Web Consortium
• W3C web standards.
• The most important Web standards are HTML, CSS and XML