Alphabet soup: http, html, www, wmo, etc.

Did you ever wonder why all web addresses start with "http://www." and what does that stuff stand for anyway? 
Here are the answers and more:
 

http

This stands for hypertext transfer protocol. In 1991, a group of physicists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland decided to build an online system for ordinary users to easily share and disseminate text and graphics over a variety of computer interfaces. They developed http as the standard protocol for communicating and responding to data requests on their online system.
 

html

This stands for hypertext markup language. It is the standard computer language used on the Internet. The key to creating documents for the Internet is the clever insertion of hypertext (and now hypermedia) links to other resources on the Internet.

www

An easy one! This stands for the world wide web. The Geneva physicists quickly expanded their project into something far grander. In the words of one of the original developers, www is "the universe of network-accessible information, an embodiment of human knowledge."
 

wmo

In the scientific world, WMO stands for the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. In the legal world, WMO stands for Withrow, McQuade & Olsen, LLP in Atlanta, Georgia.
etc.

Now that you understand the basics, you may be ready to write your own web pages. The existence of this page proves even attorneys with no formal computer training can do it, but a good HTML editor is essential. These web pages were created using a shareware editor called Aardvark Pro which I highly recommend, and the link enables you to download a trial version of the product.