The web is a system for publishing pages of information on the internet, and for linking pages together using links.
Anyone can publish a page by uploading it to a web server. Anyone can read that page by typing its address into a web browser. This makes it very easy for people to share documents even if they are using what would otherwise be incompatible computers. In fact, that’s exactly why Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in the early 1990s.
The web would be useful but annoying if you had to type the precise address - the URL (uniform resource locator) - for every page you wanted. Fortunately, you don’t have to. Web pages can include embedded links or ’hyperlinks’, so simply clicking the link will take you to that page. Following a trail of links is called ‘web surfing’.
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