World Wide Web
noun
: a part of the Internet accessed through a graphical user interface and containing documents often connected by hyperlinks
called also Web
Examples of World Wide Web in a Sentence
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Accordingly, the first dominant metaphors for navigating digital space, especially the nascent World Wide Web, were athletic and action-oriented: wandering, trekking, and most of all, surfing.
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WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
Thankfully, however, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has been talking about FIDO support for many years now so that a number of sites already support these digital keys, and with this announcement in particular, many more are expected to do so in the near-term future.
—Bob O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 13 May 2022
Also, do people still say ‘World Wide Web’?
—Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2023
In the mid 1990s, for instance, McCall and Rusbridger flew to San Francisco to learn about the then-nascent World Wide Web.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
The original World Wide Web, a static, low-bandwidth, verbal system of hyperlinks, was over.
—WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
Other founding members include Adobe, Epic Games, Ikea, Qualcomm, Sony, the XR Association, and SDOs The Khronos Group, World Wide Web Consortium, and Open Geospatial Consortium.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 22 June 2022
Its YouTube description paints Web3 — the vague concept of a decentralized World Wide Web, based on the blockchain — as our inevitable future.
—Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
In 2013, researchers at Google unleashed a descendant of it onto the text of the whole World Wide Web.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
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WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
Thankfully, however, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) has been talking about FIDO support for many years now so that a number of sites already support these digital keys, and with this announcement in particular, many more are expected to do so in the near-term future.
—Bob O'Donnell, USA TODAY, 13 May 2022
Also, do people still say ‘World Wide Web’?
—Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Apr. 2023
In the mid 1990s, for instance, McCall and Rusbridger flew to San Francisco to learn about the then-nascent World Wide Web.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 1 Mar. 2023
The original World Wide Web, a static, low-bandwidth, verbal system of hyperlinks, was over.
—WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
Other founding members include Adobe, Epic Games, Ikea, Qualcomm, Sony, the XR Association, and SDOs The Khronos Group, World Wide Web Consortium, and Open Geospatial Consortium.
—Scharon Harding, Ars Technica, 22 June 2022
Its YouTube description paints Web3 — the vague concept of a decentralized World Wide Web, based on the blockchain — as our inevitable future.
—Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2022
In 2013, researchers at Google unleashed a descendant of it onto the text of the whole World Wide Web.
—James Somers, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
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First Known Use
1990, in the meaning defined above
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World Wide Web
noun
: 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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