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• The world wide web(www) is a system for creating, organizing, and linking

document so that they may be easily browsed.

• We web has transformed the ways in which we communicate ,learn and

socialize and it has changed the ways in which we think about information,
information seeking and interacting with information systems.

• It is ,moreover , one of the principal factors underlying globalization, in the
process creating a vast array of connections involving individuals, groups,

institutions and providing a platform that has redefined workflow in many

organizations through computer to computer data interchanges as well a
the creation of collaborative communities.

• The web has succeeded because: many relevant conditions were “right”
and it has relied from the outset on a simple, derivative architecture ,

consisting of the hypertext Markup Language (HTML) , the Hypertext

Transfer Protocol (HTTP) , and the Uniform Resource Locator(URL).