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

If this is how a professed advocate for an open-source world is behaving, is there really any future left for the open-source dream of the World Wide Web?

From Slate

The life span of the world wide web has seen alternative text-based media give way to microblogging, which then gave way to primarily visual media, which then gave way to lives fully lived online, in front of a phone camera, directed on your face, meant to please the almighty algorithms.

From Slate

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

Using the term “TV movie” in 2024 is like calling the internet the World Wide Web.

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps the most significant contribution came online, from Simon King at the University of Minnesota, who, in 1993, began a proto-website that he named Cricinfo, ostensibly to test the possibilities of a new medium called the World Wide Web.

From BBC