What is WWW

• Hypertext based

• Multimedia - support for different type of data

  • images
  • sound
  • video

• Datatypes are specified with the MIME-standard.

• Links anywhere in the documents

  • part of text
  • part of images

• Support for older standards

  • telnet
  • ftp
  • gopher etc.

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