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  1. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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

  2. Definition of World Wide Web | PCMag

    What does World Wide Web actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

  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. 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 …

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. What Happened To WWW.? - Hackaday

    May 5, 2025 · Berners-Lee had invented the World Wide Web, and called it as such, but he hadn’t included the prefix in his URL at all. So where did it come from?