the World Wide Web

noun

: the part of the Internet that can be looked at with a special program (called a browser) and that is made up of many documents which are linked together

Examples of the World Wide Web in a Sentence

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The Sustainable Web Design Community Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was established in 2013, while the Green Web Foundation began in 2006 as a way to understand the kinds of energy that power the Internet. —IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2024

To determine whether a claim is valid, the new law would reference the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). —Jordan McGillis, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2024

Never before have humans crowded together in such massive cities, accessing vast realms of knowledge with a click of the keyboard and sharing new concepts, new blueprints and designs across the sprawling social networks of the World Wide Web. —Heather Pringle, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2016

Other recipients have included Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and Vinton G. Cerf, who wrote the code that powers communication on the internet. —Michael S. Rosenwald, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2024

The culprit: a sentient AI Gelman created that went rogue on the World Wide Web. —Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Sep. 2023

Moreover, the Sustainable Web Design Community Group of the World Wide Web Consortium recently released its web sustainability guidelines. —IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2023

Presciently called the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee’s browser conflated the program and the idea of the internet itself (the software was subsequently renamed Nexus, to avoid this very confusion). —Suzannah Showler, WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023

He was introduced at a conference as the inventor of the World Wide Web. —Gil Press, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023