WWW is the acronym for World Wide Web.
WWW are the initials that identify the English expression World Wide Web , the system of hypertext documents that are linked together and accessed through the Internet . Through software known as a browser , users can view various websites (which contain text, images, videos and other multimedia content) and navigate through them using hyperlinks .
In this way, we could say, using a comparison with the telephone communications sector, that www is the "prefix" that every portal that is in the aforementioned Network that we want to access has.
The origins of the WWW
The WWW, as noted when reviewing the origins of this acronym , was developed in the early '90s by a man of English origin named Tim Berners-Lee , who had the collaboration of Robert Cailliau , a Belgian who worked with him in Geneva ( Switzerland ).
In any case, its history dates back to the '40s. It should be noted that Berners-Lee and Cailliau have been key to the creation of various standards related to the web universe, as occurred with the markup languages that make the creation of pages possible.
Its operation
The operation of the WWW is initiated when a user enters an address ( URL ) in their browser or when they follow a hypertext link included in a page. The browser then sends a series of communications to obtain the data of the requested page and, in this way, display it.
The first step is to transform the URL server name into an IP address , using the database known as DNS . The IP address allows you to contact the web server and transfer data packets.
An HTTP request is then sent to the server in order to access the resource. First the HTML text is requested and then the analysis is carried out by the browser, which makes other requests reserved for the graphics and the rest of the files that are part of the page.
The rise of the WWW changed communication and the ways of accessing information.
The importance of the WWW
Thanks precisely to the Internet, to the use of the www and, consequently, to the various web pages that they present, citizens from all over the world have the possibility of accessing endless spaces where we can find information on an aspect that we are looking for. , where we have the opportunity to entertain ourselves by viewing interesting images or even where we can communicate with people from any corner of the geography of our planet.
In this sense, and based on the examples presented, we can emphasize that some of the websites that have the most users in the world are the Google search engine, the YouTube video portal or social networks such as Facebook .
a revolution
It is worth highlighting that for all these reasons the Internet and the www world have become the authentic revolution and innovation of the 20th century and the indisputable axis of the current century. And it has managed to bring about an absolute change not only in the technological field but also in the social field.
In this way, expert sociologists have highlighted how they have partially modified communication between human beings. And it is not only that many people rely on the Internet to be able to have conversations with their friends or family, but also a high number of them use the same to meet new friends or relationships, to regain contact with people or even to establish labor relations.