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Internet Techniques and Web Formats >> History of Multimedia >> World Wide Web

1.3.5. World Wide Web

Up to then, all described services were available only for a selected user group (developers and Macintosh users). To make multimedia publicly available and accessible on all platforms, Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1991. WWW is a hypertext-based system that operates over the internet. Distributed documents, stored on remote computers, can be accessed electronically via web browser software. The WWW is made up of three standards:

Here is an example of HTML-Code and how it looks in the browser:


You will learn more about the three standards URL, HTTP and HTML in a further lesson.



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