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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 ways meant 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 …

  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 - Live Science

    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 …

  7. 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 …

  8. A History of the World Wide Web From 1989 to the Present Day - MUO

    Apr 13, 2023 · The World Wide Web is a collection of billions of interlinked websites accessible on the global computer network known as the internet. Wide area networking (WANs) predated …

  9. The World Wide Web - PBS

    Berners-Lee's vision of a global web of linked information was soon dubbed the World Wide Web. In 1992, Berners Lee designed a World Wide Web browser and distributed it for free.

  10. Where the web was born - CERN

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