Transcription: So what exactly is the World Wide Web? Well, it's a little like Gopher, but much better. Like Gopher, the web consists of various sites containing information. When you visit a website, a document called a home page is displayed. This document is in a special format called HTML, the Hypertext Markup Language. This document can contain links to other HTML documents, which can link to other documents and so forth. The web is more powerful than Gopher. because of the way it links, and because of the types of files web documents can link to. Gopher documents are organized in a hierarchical manner. ...