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World Wide Web (WWW)


WWW stands for World Wide Web. The World Wide Web, commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URL) and are accessible over the Internet. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist.

Internet vs World Wide Web (WWW)

Internet is a huge network of computers and servers that are connected together. The world wide web (WWW) on the other hand is a collection of webpages found on this network of computers. Web browsers use the Internet to access the web.

Source :
1. https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/

2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zkcqn39/articles/z2nbgk7


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