WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)

An international, virtual- network -based information service composed of Internet host computers that provide on-line information in a specific hypertext format . Note 1: WWW servers provide hypertext metalanguage (HTML) formatted documents using the hypertext transfer protocol ( HTTP ). Note 2: Information on the WWW is accessed with a hypertext browser such as Mosaic , Viola, or Lynx . Note 3: No hierarchy exists in the WWW, and the same information may be found by many different approaches.