WWW is the acronym for World Wide Web, a worldwide network of interconnected computers.
The literal translation of world wide web is "web all over the world" or "web the size of the world", and indicates the potential of the internet, capable of connecting the world, as if it were a web.
The www is a hypermedia system, which is the meeting of various media interconnected by electronic communication systems. Executed on the Internet, where you can access any website for consultation on the Internet.
The Web works through three parameters:
- URL, which specifies the unique address each page will receive, and is how it will be found when users type;
- HTTP, which is a communication protocol that allows the transfer of information between networks;
- HTML, which is a method of encoding information from the internet, to be displayed in a variety of ways.
History of the acronym www
The internet was born as a closed network, in the 60s, under the name Aparnet. Created in US military laboratories, it was used to exchange information between government computers. It was only in 1989 that the proposal gained the characteristic we know today with the emergence of the www (World Wide Web).
Developed by English physicist Tim Berners-Lee, in the laboratories of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern).
The www established a standard language for the circulation of data on the network, allowing any computer, anywhere on the planet, to have free access to the virtual world.
See also the meanings of:
- world wide web
- Internet
- web
- intranet
- browser
