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  1. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

    The World Wide Web (also known as WWW, W3, or simply the Web) [1] is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly interfaces designed to appeal to …

  2. What is the world wide web? - BBC Bitesize

    The world wide web (‘www’ or ‘web’ for short) is a collection of webpages found on this global network of computers. Your web browser uses the internet to access the world wide web.

  3. A short history of the Web - CERN

    Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated …

  4. Definition of World Wide Web | PCMag

    (2) (World Wide Web) An Internet-based system that enables an individual or company to publish itself to the world, except in countries that prohibit the free interchange of information.

  5. Here Comes the World-Wide Web of Everything - MSN

    When it was invented in 1991, the World Wide Web connected together an Internet that was overrun with many thousands of individual, fragmented digital documents.

  6. World Wide Web: Definition, history and facts

    Mar 31, 2022 · Before the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW), the earliest internet users were mainly researchers and military personnel. The network was complicated and, although it was …

  7. World Wide Web (WWW) - The University of Oklahoma

    World-Wide Web (also called WWW or W3) is a hypertext-based information system. Any word in a hypertext document can be specified as a pointer to a different hypertext document where more …

  8. History of the World Wide Web - Wikipedia

    The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3" or simply "the Web") is a global information medium that users can access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often used as a synonym for the …

  9. On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web

    Aug 6, 2024 · Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), used that forum to announce to the world his new initiative, writing, “The …

  10. The World Wide Web became available to the broader public 30 ... - NPR

    On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. It revolutionized the internet and allowed users to create websites filled with graphics, audio and hyperlinks.