Introduction to the World Wide Web

• The Internet grew making it difficult to find specific information
• The World Wide Web (WWW) increase the easy and quickness to retrieve information
• Before WWW, TCP/IP services were Gopher, FTP, and Archie
• The WWW was built on the technology called Hypertext
• WWW has a protocol, which is known as HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• The WWW is intended to help people share information resources, so the WWW was designed to work on multiple platforms