World Wide Web
English
Etymology
1990, coined by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, from worldwide and web.
Proper noun
- Collectively, all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of documents and media.
- 1990, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project” at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website (retrieved 2010-11-16).
- WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project [title]
- 1990, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project” at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website (retrieved 2010-11-16).
- (computing) Internet resources that are retrieved by Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
Usage notes
- Although worldwide is a single word (also spelt as world-wide), World Wide Web is spelt as three separate words.
- World Wide Web and Web are sometimes loosely used to refer to the entire Internet, but this is not technically accurate: the Internet includes further non-Web systems such as e-mail (SMTP) and newsgroups (NNTP).
Synonyms
- the Web
Translations
information space on the Internet
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See also
- Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year
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