Thursday, April 16, 2009

What does "http" stand for?


Search
: http

Why: "www" is world wide web. HTML is Hypertext Markup Language.

Answer: Hypertext Transfer Protocol! And URL, by the way, stands for Uniform Resource Locator.

Source: W3.org

The More You Know: The World Wide Web Consortium (aka W3) is the main international standards organization for the information superhighway. It was founded in October 1994 at MIT by computer science professor (and WWW inventor) Sir Tim Berners-Lee.