Long for WWW, a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The
documents are formatted in a script called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to
other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files. This means you can jump from one
document to another simply by clicking on hot spots. Not all Internet servers are part of the World
Wide Web.
Historically: Tim Berners-Lee with help from Robert Cailliau published a formal proposal (on
November 12, 1990) to build a "Hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" (one word, also "W3") as a
"web of nodes" with "hypertext documents" to store data. That data would be viewed in "hypertext
pages" (webpages) by various "browsers" (line-mode or full-screen) on the computer network, using an
"access protocol" connecting the "Internet and DECnet protocol worlds". |