Defense Department officials designed this network of computers beginning in the late 1950s to enable America's communications systems to survive an atomic war. For decades, people could exchange electronic mail and files, but they used text-only programs for browsing the Internet. To promote the Internet, a man named Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web in 1992. The World Wide Web is the graphical, hypertext section of the Internet. Hypertext refers to links added to words and phrases that, when selected, jump to related text in the same or a different web page.
Web sites are nonlinear.
Unlike most books, which are meant to be read from beginning to end, web sites usually are designed so that you can start at any point and navigate through different sections without a beginning or end. Your Own Adventure children's books popular about a decade ago. HTML documents look like normal text except they have special markup tags that indicate formatting and the relative position of objects on the page. Inc. Different browsers interpret HTML commands differently. Some browsers won't recognize certain commands.