WWW, otherwise known as the World Wide Web, is a term that refers to the worldwide computer network. The Web gives people from all over the world access to a huge number of documents that are linked by hypertext and hypermedia links, electronic connections. These pieces help to link together previously associated pieces of information in order to provide the user with easy access to it.
Using hypertext, the user can select a specific word, phrase, or sentence from the text and thus access other documents that also contain information associated with this word or phrase.
Hypermedia documents contain many references to images, animations, movies, and sounds. The Web operates in its familiar client-server format on the Internet. It is worth dwelling here in more detail. Servers are computer programs that store and transmit, if necessary, documents to other computers upon request. Clients, in turn, are programs that require documents from the server at the request of the user. With the help of special software, Internet users can easily view the received documents.
