The World Wide Web is a global hypertext system which was initially developed in 1989 by Tim Berners Lee at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CERN in Swizerland. This application provided the first graphical user interface to the Web and made browsing more convenient.
Today there are Web browsers and servers available for nearly all platforms.
You can get them either from an FTP site for free or buy a licensed copy. The rapid growth in popularity of the Web is due to the flexible way people can navigate through world-wide resources in the Internet and retrieve them. There are already some companies doing business on the Web. You can look at prospectuses and product offerings and of course order products over the Web. Most of the multinational companies have a Web server in place to distribute product specific information, their portfolio or simply to get in contact with customers.