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World Wide Web

(WWW, W3) an extremely large group of computers linked to-gether
utilizing many networks, offering information to users via Web servers
and browsers. Most of the information found on the Web is formatted in a
programming language called HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and trans-mitted
using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Navigating the World Wide
Web is often as easy as clicking a hyperlink located on one Website leading to
another. Though the terms Internet and Web are used interchangeably, there is
a distinction between the two. The Internet is actually a global collection of
computers linked to exchange information, of which the World Wide Web is a
part. The distinction lies in that Web pages are characteristically linked through
hyperlinks and most of the information found on the Web is formatted in HTML.
The Internet evolved from ARPANET, which was originally a communica-tions
tool of the US Department of Defense. The World Wide Web was officially
established by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 at CERN, a research institute in Swit-zerland.