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What is World Wide Web?


World Wide Web, which is also known as a Web, is a collection of websites or web pages stored in web servers and connected to local computers through the internet. These websites contain text pages, digital images, audios, videos, etc. Users can access the content of these sites from any part of the world over the internet using their devices such as computers, laptops, cell phones, etc. 





The building blocks of the Web are web pages which are formatted in HTML and connected by links called "hypertext" or hyperlinks and accessed by HTTP.These links are electronic connections that link related pieces of information so that users can access the desire information quickly.
Hypertext offers the advantage to select a word or phrase from text and thus to access other pages that provide additional information related to that word or phrase.
A web page is given an online address called a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). A particular collection of web pages that belong to a specific URL is called a website, e.g., www.facebook.com, www.google.com, etc.

 So, the World Wide Web is like a huge electronic book whose pages are stored on multiple servers across the world.
   So, the web provides a communication platform for users to retrieve and exchange information over the internet. 


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