Proper noun
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
world-wide web
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