World Wide Web

[ wurld wahyd web ]

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

World Wide Web

noun

1. 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 WWW

World Wide Web

/ 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

World Wide Web

1. See Internet .

Word History and Origins

Origin of World Wide Web¹

First recorded in 1990–95

Example Sentences

So there was no real World Wide Web, much less social networks that we take for granted today.

From The Daily Beast

The World Wide Web is whispering that it's actually a reference to Avril Lavigne's own, well, “kitty.”

From The Daily Beast

The British physics graduate submitted a proposal for a network of computers called the World Wide Web on March 12, 1989.

From The Daily Beast

“He used it both to design what the World Wide Web was and then to serve the first web pages,” she said.

From The Daily Beast

But because of the World Wide Web, there is too much content and not enough filter, and the value of talent has been decimated.

From The Daily Beast

The World Wide Web embodies many of his ideas, as well as ideas of a number of other visionaries.

From Project Gutenberg

It is part of the living library, without walls and bookshelves, called the World Wide Web.

From Project Gutenberg

The ambition of the World Wide Web is to enable meaningful one-to-one and one-to-many interactions.

From Project Gutenberg

Sitting before your computer, you connect to the World Wide Web.

From Project Gutenberg