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Part of the Internet, a collection of multimedia documents…linked in a hypertext Web that allows users to explore them with simple mouse clicks.
Developed in 1989/1990 by Tim Berners-Lee, at CERN, a physics research facility in Switzerland
He developed the…
*Addressing system (URL)
*Web page language (HyperText Markup Language, HTML)
*The linking protocol (HyperText Transfer Protocol, HTTP)

“The dream behind the Web is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information. Its universality is essential: the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything, be it personal, local or global, be it draft or highly polished.” ("Tim Berners-Lee").

What is on the WWW?
*Brochure websites
*Interactive websites
*Blogging and social networking
*Forums
*Search engines
*On-line business applications
*Services such as web-based email, instant messaging
*And more…new things all the time.