World Wide Web

High school (ages 12+)
Science & Technology

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/world-wide-web

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the inventor?Tim Berners-Lee
2. What is the year of conception?1989
3. Who invented the World Wide Web and when?Tim Berners‑Lee invented the Web while working at CERN in 1989. The first website went live in August 1991.
4. How do we open a web page?You type a URL into a web browser, which asks the web server for the page. The server sends back files, and the browser shows the page.

World Wide Web (WWW): A global information space where documents and resources are interconnected via hyperlinks and accessed via the Internet.
Internet: The underlying global network infrastructure that enables the World Wide Web and other services.
HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the protocol used for transferring files (like web pages) on the World Wide Web.
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language, the standard markup language used to create web pages and web applications.