The World Wide Web is the most popular part of the Internet by far. Once you spend time on the Web you will feel that there is no limit to what you can discover. The Web allows rich and diverse communication by enabling you to access and interact with text, graphics, animation, photos, audio and video.

So just what is this miraculous creation? On the simplest level, the Web physically consists of your personal computer or mobile device, web browser software, a connection to an Internet service provider, computers called servers that host digital data and routers and switches that direct the flow of information.
Client/server system

The Web is sometimes referred to as a client-server system. Your computer is the client; the remote computers
that store electronic files are the servers.
Navigating the Web

Let's say you want to access the Louvre museum website. First you enter the address or URL of the website in your web browser (more about this shortly). Then your browser requests all the data files that comprise the web page from the web server that hosts the Louvre's site. The server transmits the data over the Internet to your computer. Your web browser assembles and interprets the data, displaying it on your computer screen.

The Louvre's website also has links to the sites of other museums, such as the Vatican Museum. If you click the link, you access the web server for the Vatican Museum. In this way, information scattered all across the globe is linked together.

The "glue" that holds the Web together is called hypertext and hyperl