Full form of WWW

Full form of WWW is World Wide Web.

It is also known as web. It is a collection of all the websites which are connected to the internet.

It is a system of interconnected hypertext documents which are accessible through the internet. The web is designed like it stores documents of websites and can be accessed through the unique URL. A webpage contains different types of content like, texts, images and other multimedia.

Webpage can be accessible through the use of web browser and traverse between them by using hyperlinks.

The list of several popular web browsers is as following and these browsers are also accessible for smart phones and other devices.

• Internet Explorer
• Google Chrome
• Opera
• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari
• Netscape Navigator etc.

History

WWW was first invented by Tim Berners-Lee on 12 March 1989. He was an engineer and British computer scientist. and working at international scientist organizations at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.

The first web browser was text based browser and was known as browser editor and written by Tim Berners-Lee, who used as the NeXt Computer.

Features of WWW

It is a distributed system which spread between different kinds of websites.

It is a cross-platform system which is synonymous with different types of devices.

It is an open source system.

Such kind of system which stores hypertext (A text which contains “links” to other texts) information.

Advantages

With the use of different resources such as mobile phones, tablets, computers/Laptops etc. people can communicate and reporting through the social media like facebook, twitter etc. and getting information about events and incidents which happens in the world.

Anyone can use search engines for finding information what they are looking.

The links on the Web allow people to navigate from one webpage to another webpage.

Through the web people can make use of online marketing. They can buy and sell goods and services from anywhere.

The web is accessible from anywhere so people can easily share their ideas and thoughts from different places.

Disadvantages

With the extreme use of web for surfing, online games, entertainments can cause the severe health problems.

The cybercrime, cyber-bullying and online crimes might be happen and increased.

By using it people became addicted for use of social media platforms and share their every single detail so there is chance of misuse of their personal information.

Cyberstalking and online harassment is a serious concern on the web. Attackers might steal and misusing the personal benefits of the users.