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
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Thirty-six years after its invention, the World Wide Web stands as one of the most transformative innovations of our time, and arguably the eighth wonder of the modern world.
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Akram Atallah, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
—ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
For roughly three decades, the JPEG has been the World Wide Web’s primary image format.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
This is the most fundamental change to computing since the early days of the World Wide Web.
—Cade Metz, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2025
Online materials, meanwhile, should meet the WCAG 2.1 AA standards - global standard for website accessibility set by the World Wide Web Consortium - to ensure that those with diverse visual, auditory, cognitive, and physical abilities can also still access and understand them.
—Eva Epker, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s no trace of his love life on the World Wide Web.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 31 Jan. 2025
The idea of Community Notes may have worked really well about 20 to 30 years ago in the early days of the internet, the World Wide Web.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2025
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Akram Atallah, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
—ArsTechnica, 11 Aug. 2025
For roughly three decades, the JPEG has been the World Wide Web’s primary image format.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2025
This is the most fundamental change to computing since the early days of the World Wide Web.
—Cade Metz, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2025
Online materials, meanwhile, should meet the WCAG 2.1 AA standards - global standard for website accessibility set by the World Wide Web Consortium - to ensure that those with diverse visual, auditory, cognitive, and physical abilities can also still access and understand them.
—Eva Epker, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
There’s no trace of his love life on the World Wide Web.
—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 31 Jan. 2025
The idea of Community Notes may have worked really well about 20 to 30 years ago in the early days of the internet, the World Wide Web.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2025
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