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# WWW Guide - World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) * * * ## WWW - World Wide Web Consortium WWW is commonly referred to as the Web. The World Wide Web (WWW) is a global information sharing system that transmits information through the Internet. The Web is a network of computers all over the world, which relies mainly on browsers, servers, and protocols (especially the HTTP protocol) to deliver and display information globally. Computers use standard languages to communicate on the Web. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) establishes Web standards. * * * ## What is WWW? The World Wide Web (WWW) is an information system that allows users to access and share various resources through the Internet. * WWW stands for **World Wide Web**. * The World Wide Web is often called the **Web**. * The Web is a network of computers all over the world. * All computers in the Web can communicate with each other. * All computers use HTTP as the communication standard. * * * ## How Does the World Wide Web Work? * Information is stored in files called web pages. * Web pages are stored on web servers. * The computers that read web pages are called web clients. * The program that web clients use to view web pages is called a web browser. * Popular browsers include Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and others. * * * ## How Does a Browser Get a Web Page? * A browser obtains web page data from a server through a request. * A standard HTTP request contains a web page address. * Example of a web page address: ** * * * ## How Does a Browser Display a Page? * All web pages contain instructions on how to display them. * The browser reads these instructions to display the page. * The most common display instructions are called HTML tags. * The tag for a paragraph in HTML is: **

** * In HTML, a paragraph is defined as: **

**This is a paragraph**.

** * * * ## Who Makes Web Standards? * Web standards are not made by Google or Microsoft. * The organization that establishes Web rules is W3C. * W3C stands for World Wide Web Consortium. * W3C develops Web standards specifications. * The most important Web standards are HTML, CSS, and XML.