The World Wide Web 2. The World Wide Web is the latest evolution of an effort to make information on computers throughout the world available to as many users as possible. The World Wide Web is a collection of documents residing on servers and viewers run from clients .
Special documents link various information sources.
The glue of the Web is a document language known as HyperText Markup Language, or HTML for short. This is just the beginning, though, because clients interpret HTML in a way that is user friendly, providing formatted text, pictures, sounds, and even animation, in the same document. So at this point, one might view the WWW as an all-inclusive encyclopedia, where the pages have been strewn all over the world, yet linked with a magic thread that masks the fact that the pages are no longer collocated. To understand just how useful the WWW really is, however, we need to step back and look at the evolution of the internet since its inception, about 20 years ago. The internet as we now know it, was originally designed for the Department of Defense to connect computers in just about any environment, including hostile.