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The WWW is the
whole constellation of Internet resources.
It provides the protocol for text files and multi-media. What the WWW can do which none of the
other Internet modes can is handle "hypermedia" such as graphics,
moving and still images, audio, real-time chat or sound, etc. The WWW uses the hypertext transfer
protocol (http) to enable sounds, images, text, etc. to be mixed together in
the same documents. Although most WWW
documents are written in the html (hypertext markup language), gopher and ftp
sites can also be accessed via the WWW.
The WWW also allows any computer to become a client, and any computer
to become a server. Plus, the WWW
allows different kinds of machines to communicate with eachother by providing
a simple, common language (via the browser).
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