The World Wide Web (Web) is a body of software, protocols, and conventions that use hypertext and multimedia to make information on the Internet accessible. The Web has been described in many ways. Here are some often used phrases:
With hypertext, documents can be linked to each other so that you can click on part of one document to display another document.
Documents on the Web have an address called a Uniform Resource Locator, or URL. For example, the URL for the UW Home Page is
http://www.washington.edu/
