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  1. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

    A web page (also written as webpage) is a document that is suitable for the World Wide Web and web browsers. A web browser displays a web page on a monitor or mobile device.

  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 automated …

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  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 was …

  7. World Wide Web Timeline - Pew Research Center

    Mar 11, 2014 · Since its founding in 1989, the World Wide Web has touched the lives of billions of people around the world and fundamentally changed how we connect with others, the nature of our …

  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. The World Wide Web - CMU School of Computer Science

    The World Wide Web (the Web) is a collection of programs and computer systems that let people publish words, pictures, sounds, video, and computer data to be used by other people. The Web is …

  10. 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 the World …