XV1000 Modem User Guide
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WW
(World Wide Web)
An Internet facility that links documents locally and remotely. The Web document, or
Web page, contains text, graphics, animations and videos as well as hypertext links.
The links in the page let users jump from page to page (hypertext) whether the pages
are stored on the same server or on servers around the world. Web pages are accessed
and read via a Web browser, the two most popular being Internet Explorer and
Netscape Navigator.. In the last half of the 1990s, the Web became "the" center of
Internet activity, because the Web browser provided an easy, point and click interface to
the largest collection of online information in the world. Ever since the Web became the
focal point of the Internet, the amount of information has increased at a staggering rate.
The Web has also turned into an online shopping mall as almost every organization has
added e-commerce capabilities. In addition, the Web has become a multimedia delivery
system as new browser features and plug-in extensions allow for audio, video,
telephony, 3-D animations and videoconferencing. Most browsers also support the Java
language, which allows applications to be downloaded from the Net and run locally.
The
www.
prefix used on most Web addresses is actually the mnemonic name of the
Web server used at the Web site. Most Webmasters name their servers WWW in order
to provide a recognizable address for everyone. Web addresses (URLs) are read from
right to left, so that the WWW is the last component of the address, which is the name
of the Web server itself.
