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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The more information — and disinformation — that flies through the World Wide Web, the greater people feel the need to express authenticity. — L. Carol Ritchie, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025 For example, the World Wide Web was first established at CERN as a tool to help scientists share data across their institutions. — Mariangela Lisanti, Twin Cities, 27 Mar. 2026 For the World Wide Web’s 20th anniversary, former Times staff writer Salvador Rodriguez wrote about the site’s history and how it was originally designed for universities to share research. — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2026 At Davos this year, global leaders spoke about AI, not as a software tool, but as an immense industrial buildout on par with the industrial revolution, and the rise of the World Wide Web in the 1990s. — Travis Edmonds, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for the World Wide Web

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“The World Wide Web.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20World%20Wide%20Web. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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