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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This is the most fundamental change to computing since the early days of the World Wide Web.
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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
The transition marks a significant changing of the guard for the 35-year old company, which was one of the early internet resources during the emergence of the World Wide Web.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2025
To help organizations meet their accessibility obligations, the World Wide Web Consortium developed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
—Nayan Padrai, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
While Google’s move cleared the way for new standards, key aspects of Google’s proposal continue to be debated in working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2012
The Archive is best known for its preservation of the ephemeral expanses of the World Wide Web, available through its one-of-a-kind archive/search engine, the Wayback Machine.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
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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
The transition marks a significant changing of the guard for the 35-year old company, which was one of the early internet resources during the emergence of the World Wide Web.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2025
To help organizations meet their accessibility obligations, the World Wide Web Consortium developed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
—Nayan Padrai, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
While Google’s move cleared the way for new standards, key aspects of Google’s proposal continue to be debated in working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2012
The Archive is best known for its preservation of the ephemeral expanses of the World Wide Web, available through its one-of-a-kind archive/search engine, the Wayback Machine.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
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