The World Wide Web is defined as a "wide area hypermedia information initiative amongst to provide universal access to big universe of documents". World Wide Web gives users on computer networks along with a consistent means to access a variety of media in a simplified fashion. To search the Web a popular software program is called as Mosaic, Web project has altered the way people view & create information. It has made the first global hypermedia network.
Once again the WWW gives an integrated view of the Internet via clients & servers. As discussed earlier, clients are programs which help you search out information whereas servers are the programs that determine information to the clients. WWW servers are placed around the Internet.
The operations of the Web rely on hypertext mainly as its means of interacting with users. However what is hypertext? Hypertext as such is the similar as regular text which is it can be written, searched, read or edited; however, hypertext contains connections in the text to other documents. The hypertext links are called as hyperlinks. These hyperlinks can generate a complex virtual web of connections.
Hypermedia is an advanced version of hypertext documents as it has links not only to other pieces of text although also to other forms of media like images, sounds and movies. Hypermedia combines hypertext & multimedia.