World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (www) consists of four building blocks:

A text format to represent documents: HTML
A protocol to exchange HTML documents: HTTP
A client program to view these documents: Web Browser
A server to give access to the documents: Web Server

The web uses URLs of the form http://website.org/index.html to request the resource index.html from a webserver with an IP address that is acquired by resolving the domain name website.org using DNS.

Web 1.0

"Web 1.0" describes the first stage of the web, which made up the majority of the web from about 1991 to 2004. Websites during this era served mostly static content in the form HTML.

Resources:

Wiby - Classic Web Search

Resources

Evolution of HTTP