The networks like a knowledge treasure and hence bury many resources
under this invisible grounds. Indeed it needs an effective bibliographic tool to
direct the users to explore and apply them. Under this situation, the World-Wide
Web seems appearring to achieve that. This article is to discuss the World-Wide
Web from the different perspectives, and these are development history, system
structure, commonly used terms, soope and functions, the ways to use World-Wide
Web, the means to find resources and then its features and shortcomings.
Finally, the author presents an overall comparison among the Archie, Hytelnet,
Gopher, WAIS and World-Wide Web.