Computer hypertext transfer protocol

World Wide Web. The World Wide Web (WWW) is the world wide connection of computer servers and a way of using the vast interconnected network to find and view information from around the world (Bullock, 2003 Stout, 1996). Internet uses a language, TCP/IP for talking back and forth. The TCP part determines how to take apart a message into small packets that travel on the Internet and then reassemble them at the other end. The IP part determines how to get to other places on the Internet. The WWW uses an additional language called the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The main use of the Web is for information retrieval, whereby multimedia documents are copied for... 

Tha basic architecture of the Web consists of browsers that act as clients requesting information from Web servers. Computer-to-computer communications are described in terms of protocols, and Web interactions are no exception to this rule. In order to implement the prototype Web, Berners-Lee had to define the interactions that were permissible between server and client (normally a browser, but it could in fact be any program). The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) describes these interactions. The basis of the design of HTTP was that it should make the time taken to retrieve a document from a server as short as possible. The essential interchange is Give me this document and Here it is. ... 

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Set of standard rules that allow HTML data to be transferred between computers. 

New hardware devices and software have continuously been developed to make sharing information via the Internet easier and faster. A language called hypertext markup langui e (HTML) was created to design and format the user interface to Web page content for transmission over the Internet, based on hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). As of 2011, there are many Web applications available to computer and cell phone users all over the world. 

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