World Wide Web

Proper noun

Meaning

World Wide Web

(Internet) Usually preceded by the: collectively, all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet stored in different computers around the world that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media, and are typically retrieved by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS).
Synonyms: Web, web, W3, WWW

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Alternative names

world-wide web

Synonyms

internet web cyberspace information superhighway

Hypernyms

computer network

Examples

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. Mike Fitzpatrick

The world wide web has really been quite spectacular and not something I would have predicted. Jon Postel

I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and - ta-da!- the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee

If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody. Clifford Stoll

At one point, CERN was toying with patenting the World Wide Web. Robert Cailliau

The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT- ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management. Ted Nelson

Close letter words and terms

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