World Wide Web

:For the world's first web browser, see WorldWideWeb.

Web standards

At its core, the Web is made up of three standards:

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• the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), which is a universal system for referencing resources on the Web, such as Web pages;
• the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which specifies how the browser and server communicate with each other; and
• the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), used to define the structure and content of hypertext documents.

Berners-Lee now heads the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which develops and maintains these and other standards that enable computers on the Web to effectively store and communicate different forms of information.

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