The World Wide Web is a massive collection of hypermedia-based documents that exist on servers connected to the Internet. These documents connect among themselves using Hyperlinks, thus creating a vast entanglement of informative documents. Due to this immense collection of intertwined documents, the World Wide Web is more commonly refereed to as the Web. Web surfers can view documents on the World Wide Web through an application called a Browser. Hyperlinks enable users to jump from document to document simply by clicking on a link. The Webs ability to allow users to easily navigate amongst informative documents has enhanced the era in society called the Information Age. The World Wide Web has evolved over the years as the main tool for mankind to exchange information quickly and effortlessly. The super-network called the Internet is not synonymous with the World Wide Web . The World Wide Web is simply a part of the Internet much like e-mail or FTP. However, the World Wide Web is widely recognized as the most valuable and popular part of the Internet because its ease-of-use, user interaction and most importantly its ability to grow and develop as needed. |