About the Web

Introduction

This is an article about the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is a collection of documents that are linked to one another. The Web is not the same as the Internet. The Internet is a world-wide network of networks, and it does far more than simply serve up Web pages.

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, put special emphasis on the portability of web pages. Rather than create a proprietary format, he made Web pages dependent only upon plain ASCII text.

Web pages are written in a markup language called HTML. See the source of this page to get a feeling how HTML looks like. The < and > mark off elements.

Examples

This is a text in mono-space font,
preserving
the line breaks.

An example of an unordered list:

• Some item
• Other item
• Yet another item

An example of a link to another URL.

You can use italic, bold and both italic and bold at the same time.