World Wide Web

American  

[wurld wahyd web] / ˈwɜrld ˌwaɪd ˈwɛb /

noun

1. Usually the World Wide Web (except when used before a noun) a system of extensively interlinked hypertext documents: a branch of the internet. WWW

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World Wide Web British  

noun

1.  WWW.  computing a vast network of linked hypertext files, stored on computers throughout the world, that can provide a computer user with information on a huge variety of subjects

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World Wide Web Scientific  

/ wûrld /

1. 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.

2. See more at Internet

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World Wide Web Cultural  

1. See Internet.

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Etymology

Origin of World Wide Web

First recorded in 1990–95

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• World Wide Web vs. internet

Example Sentences

By the mid-1990s, with the introduction of the more user-friendly World Wide Web, bulletin boards fell out of favor.

From Salon

OpenAI hopes it will change how people use the World Wide Web, and challenge Google Chrome’s dominance.

From Barron's

Mainframe computers were disrupted by PCs, which were disrupted by the World Wide Web, which was disrupted by smartphones.

From Barron's

But nearly 30 years since E*Trade first offered discounted trading “on the Internet’s World Wide Web,” as Reuters put it, most investors do their own trading, without the help of a professional.

From The Wall Street Journal

The platforms insist regulation goes against the spirit of the open internet, a point backed by the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee.

From Los Angeles Times