For the average user, geography disappears and so do network topology and site names. The Web is a seamless, transparent interface to the entire network. The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland in 1991. The user need not understand or be aware of HTTP, HTML, or even URLs. These are built into the infrastructure of the Web and are not normally visible.
Client software is the visible window to the Web.
The huge popularity of the Web results from availability of browers, which allow the user to move through the Web with text plus graphic, video and audio capability. Mosaic was the first hypermedia brower to attain widespread use. It was developed at the U.S. National Center for Supercomputing Applications in 1993. Netscape is now the dominant commercial browser, developed by the same people who created Mosaic. Growth of the Web has been phenomenal during the past few years.