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World wide web

//ˈwɜːld ˌwaɪd ˈwɛb// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Usually preceded by the: all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet collectively, which are (1) stored in various inter-hyperlinked computers around the world, and (2) retrieved typically by means of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or (currently more often) its secure version (HTTPS), among others. Internet

    "WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project [title] […] Having a world wide web implies some solutions must be found for problems such as different access protocols and different node content formats. These issues are addressed by our proposal."

Noun
  1. 1
    computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol wordnet

Etymology

From worldwide + web. Coined by global system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet World Wide Web and Belgian engineer and computer scientist Robert Cailliau in a paper published on 12 November 1990 (see quotations below).

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