World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a complex global system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed via the Internet. These pages are converted from HTML (the markup language web pages are originally written in) by a web browser, into text, images, video, or other multimedia that can be read and interpreted by end users. The first proposal for what would eventually become the World Wide Web was written in 1989, and proposed a basic plan for utilizing hypertext to link, access, and interpret information of various kinds as web nodes. To this day, one of the main functions of the Internet is to provide a network of hyperlinks that connect related pages, downloadable files, source documents, and other web resources.