The World Wide Web merges the techniques of networked information and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system. The web is currently the most advanced information system deployed on the Internet, and embraces within its data model most information in previous networked information systems. In fact, the web is an architecure which will also embrace any future advances in technology, including new networks, protocols, object types and data formats. Those documents which are hypertext, contain links to other documents, or places within documents.
All documents look similar to the reader and are contained within the same addressing scheme.
To follow a link, a reader clicks with a mouse . These are the only operations necessary to access the entire world of data.