The World Wide Web (WWW) is the collection of hosts on the Internet that provide access to documents (also called pages) using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
The documents are interlinked by hotspots (page elements, highlighted text, and graphics) called links that let you click and link to the documents described in the text. The web is a huge, distributed, accessible, linked collection of text, images, and sounds. World Wide Web documents are composed in a mark-up language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
For more information on the World Wide Web and related topics, view the WWW document http://www.w3.org.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a collection of styles (indicated by mark-up tags) that define the various components of a World Wide Web document. The advantage of hypertext over standard text is that it allows you to link to other documents by clicking page elements, highlighted words, or images.
URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) are addresses of resources on the Internet, such as files or newsgroups.
URLs contain information in the following format:
protocol://machine_name[:port]/directory/filename.ext
where:
protocol is the protocol used to transmit the file.
machine_name is the domain name of the server you are accessing. World Wide Web servers are conventionally identified by the prefix www. For example, the World Wide Web server for Cisco is www.tgv.cisco.com.
port is the TCP port on which the connection is made. A port is only required when accessing a non-standard TCP port number.
directory is the directory where the document is located.
filename.ext is the file name and extension of the document.
There are several kinds of protocols supported by Enhanced Mosaic, including:
HTML file generated May 15, 1996.