A report on Website, Hyperlink, Web page and Web browser

The usap.gov website
An example of a hyperlink as commonly seen in a web browser, with a mouse pointer hovering above it
The home page of a website displayed in a web browser
Traditional browser arrangement: UI features above page content
The nasa.gov home page in 2015
Several documents being connected by hyperlinks
Nicola Pellow and Tim Berners-Lee in 1992
Server-side programming language usage in 2016.
How internal MediaWiki links work when one wants to create a link that displays words different from the linked page's title.
Marc Andreessen, lead developer of Mosaic and Navigator, in 2007
Douglas Engelbart and his team at SRI, 1969

A website (also written as web site) is a collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server.

- Website

Web pages are delivered by a web server to the user and displayed in a web browser.

- Web page

When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the web browser retrieves the necessary content from a web server and then displays the page on the user's device.

- Web browser

A website consists of many web pages linked together under a common domain name.

- Web page

A search engine is a website that provides links to other websites.

- Web browser

Hyperlinking between web pages guides the navigation of the site, which often starts with a home page.

- Website

The app used on these devices is called a web browser.

- Website

Webgraph is a graph, formed from web pages as vertices and hyperlinks, as directed edges.

- Hyperlink

A web browser usually displays a hyperlink in some distinguishing way, e.g. in a different color, font or style, or with certain symbols following to visualize link target or document types.

- Hyperlink

Somewhat controversially, Vuestar Technologies has tried to enforce patents applied for by its owner, Ronald Neville Langford, around the world relating to search techniques using hyperlinked images to other websites or web pages.

- Hyperlink
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The historic World Wide Web logo, designed by Robert Cailliau.

World Wide Web

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Information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet.

Information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet.

The historic World Wide Web logo, designed by Robert Cailliau.
A web page displayed in a web browser
A global map of the Web Index for countries in 2014
This NeXT Computer was used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server.
The World Wide Web functions as an application layer protocol that is run "on top of" (figuratively) the Internet, helping to make it more functional. The advent of the Mosaic web browser helped to make the web much more usable, to include the display of images and moving images (GIFs).
Graphic representation of a minute fraction of the WWW, demonstrating hyperlinks
A screenshot of a web page on Wikimedia Commons
Dynamic web page: example of server-side scripting (PHP and MySQL)
The usap.gov website
The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge web server, a computer designed for rack mounting
Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website; here, Dell servers are installed together to be used for the Wikimedia Foundation.
The results of a search for the term "lunar eclipse" in a web-based image search engine

Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web servers and can be accessed by programs such as web browsers.

The original and still very common document type is a web page formatted in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

The HTML language also supports hyperlinks (embedded URLs) which provide immediate access to other web resources.

Multiple web resources with a common theme and usually a common domain name make up a website.