In 1989 Sir Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea of World Wide Web.
The Web requires a number of technologies to work, and Tim also thought of these. The three main technologies are HTML (the ‘language’ of the Web) URL (how websites are identified and found) and HTTP (the communications ‘protocol’ for web sites).
A Web ‘address’ (URL)
1 = Protocol in use (you don’t normally have to type this bit – just start after the :// )
2 = Domain name (or sub-domain as here). This is the address of the web server. Often starts with www. if not a sub-domain
3 = Path to the page or resource (sometimes has sub-paths)
4 = Page or Resource you are looking at. Similar to a filename.
Find out more
It’s easy to think of the Web and the internet as the same thing. But this is incorrect.
See BBC ‘How it Works‘ and play the video in section 2 of How does the Internet Work?
Look at the video on What is the World Wide Web?
