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World Wide Web, n.
Brit. |ˌwəːld wʌɪd ˈwɛb|, U.S. |ˈˌwər(ə)ld ˌwaɪd ˈwɛb|
Forms: also with lower-case initials.
[‹ worldwide adj. + web n.
The quotation below, though an unrelated earlier instance of this phrase, nevertheless draws on a similar metaphor of a web-like communications network.
1965J. Huxley & H. B. D. Kettlewell Charles Darwin & his World 128 [Darwin] sat quietly at Down like a benevolent spider at the centre of a world-wide web of scientific communication. ]
A system for accessing and retrieving multimedia information over the Internet, whereby documents stored at numerous locations worldwide are cross-referenced using hypertext links, which allow the user to move from one document to another. Also: the network of interlinked information that is accessible via this system. Abbreviated WWW, W3.
Now usually shortened to web (see web n. Additions).
Although World Wide Web and Internet are frequently taken to be synonymous, the World Wide Web is only one of various systems (including email and peer-to-peer applications) which communicate via the Internet.
1990T. Berners-Lee & R. Cailliau WorldWideWeb (title of electronic document) WorldWideWeb: proposal for a HyperText project. 1992T. Berners-Lee et al. in D. Perret-Gallix New Computing Techniques in Physics Res. II 157 The World-Wide Web (W3) initiative encourages physicists to share information using wide-area networks. 1993Compute Sept. 23/2 (advt.) To help you find the information you want, you'll have direct access to powerful search utilities such as ‘Gopher’, ‘Hytelnet’, ‘WAIS’, and ‘the World-Wide Web’. 1994Guardian 9 June (Online Suppl.) 5/2 The World Wide Web..is poised to create an egalitarian new cybersociety for all. 2001San Diego Union-Tribune (Electronic ed.) 9 Jan. 4 It's amazing to think today, with the World Wide Web now spanning some 7 million sites, that its creator could barely get his colleagues interested at first. 2005A. Smith Accidental 149 All those girls on the world wide web being endlessly broken in mundane-looking rooms on the internet. |