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  1. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

    The World Wide Web (also known as WWW, W3, or simply the Web) [2] is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet using a graphical user interface. [3]

  2. 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 …

  3. 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.

  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. History of the Internet - Internet Society

    Oct 24, 1998 · World Wide Web The World Wide Web, known today simply as the Web, emerged as one of the major services to run on top of the Internet.

  6. The story of the World Wide Web - Deccan Herald

    Jul 31, 2025 · The World Wide Web is just one way to use the internet, like a magical library that lets you hop from one book to another just by clicking your mouse.

  7. 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 …

  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 …

  9. World Wide Web - Definition - BleepingComputer

    World Wide Web is the vast amount of computers, that are acting as web servers, which use the protocol HTTP to transfer documents to a user's computer to be viewed with a web browser. …

  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 …