WWW Introduction

The World Wide Web (WWW) is a large-scale, online information repository.
The Web allows users to conveniently access one site from another across the Internet via links, enabling proactive, on-demand retrieval of rich information.
The Web is a distributed hypermedia system; it extends the hypertext system (where hypertext refers to text containing links to other documents). Hypertext serves as the foundation of the Web.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

What is a URL?

A Universal Resource Locator (URL) is the standard address for resources on the Internet.

URL Structure Format

<protocol>://<host>:<port>/<path>

URLs Using HTTP

The general form of an HTTP URL is:
http://<host>:<port>/<path>
The default port number for HTTP is 80, which is often omitted.
Example of an HTTP URL: https://www.supremepole.com/