World Wide Web
Americannoun
noun
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The complete set of electronic documents stored on computers that are connected over the Internet and are made available by the protocol known as HTTP. The World Wide Web makes up a large part of the Internet.
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See more at Internet
Etymology
Origin of World Wide Web
First recorded in 1990–95
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Berners-Lee said that AI does not have anything like the World Wide Web Consortium, the international internet standards organisation he founded.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
The web may be the most important metaphor of our time, from our web-of-life ecosystems to the World Wide Web that connects our devices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
As bleak, frightening and all-around life-ruining as the internet has proven itself to be, there was a time not long ago when the World Wide Web felt like a portal, not a black hole.
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2026
"If it's smarter than you, then we have to keep it contained," warned Tim Berners Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, talking to the BBC earlier this month.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
The first big breakthrough to bring the Internet alive as a tool of connectivity and collaboration—a tool that anyone, not just computer geeks, could use—was Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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