World Wide Web

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Definition of World Wide Web

: a part of the Internet accessed through a graphical user interface and containing documents often connected by hyperlinks

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The first known use of World Wide Web was in 1990

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World Wide Web

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: a part of the Internet designed to allow easier navigation of the network through the use of text and graphics that link to other documents

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