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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (also known as WWW, W3, or simply the Web) is a global interconnected information system that enables content sharing over the Internet. It facilitates access to documents and other web resources according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

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Abbreviation
WWW, W3
Authors
Tim Berners-Lee
First published
6 August 1991; 35 years ago (1991-08-06)
License
Public domain (Since April 1993)
Organization
CERN (1989–1994) · W3C (1994–present)
Status
Active

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World Wide Web

Nodes297
Edges296
Triples286
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.006734
Components1

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World Wide Web

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related to Further reading · 84
World Wide Web → Amateurs, Architecture, August, Berners-Lee, Books, Bray, Brügger, Chris, Conceptual Analysis, Connolly, Cory Doctorow, Cotton, Culture, Dan, David, December, Do About It, Enshittification, Everyone, Farrar
related to External links · 28
World Wide Web → Anniversary, Casilli, Daily, Growth, Internet, InternetLiving Internet, July, Online InteractionsThe Erdős Webgraph, Server, Sociology, Some Elements, Statistics, TechChange, The, Usage, USAID, W3C, W3C Recommendations Reduce, Wayback Machine, Web
related to Nomenclature · 18
World Wide Web → As, Douglas Adams, Facebook, Gmail, In English, Myspace, New Zealand, Outlook, Podgrams, Some, Stephen Fry, Sunday, The English, The Independent, The World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Twitter, Use
related to Competition with Gopher · 17
World Wide Web → April, CERN, Every Gopher, Failure, GNU General Public License, Gopher, HTML, HyperText Markup Language, In February, In September, Minnesota, Mosaic, This, University, Users, Web, WWW
related to www prefix · 14
World Wide Web → According, CERN, CNAME, DNS, Domain Name System, FTP, Internet, Many, Paolo Palazzi, Since, The, These, Tim Berners-Lee, Usenet
related to Accessibility · 13
World Wide Web → Access, Accessibility, Consortium, International, Many, The, The Web, The World Wide Web, There, These, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, Web
related to Function · 13
World Wide Web → Early, However, HTTP, HTTPS, In, Internet, One, The, The Internet, URIs, URL, Viewing, Web
related to Search engine · 12
World Wide Web → Archie, File Transfer Protocol, FTP, Google, In, Internet, SERPs, Some, The, This, Unlike, Yahoo
related to Scheme specifiers · 9
World Wide Web → HTTP Secure, HTTPS, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, The, The HTTP, They, URI, URIs, Web
related to Deep web · 6
World Wide Web → Bergman, Computer, HTTP, Internet, Michael, The

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web server internet page world html wide information http browser pages content may user websites resources hypertext use also www

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
World Wide WebAbbreviationWWW, W31.00infobox
World Wide WebAuthorsTim Berners-Lee1.00infobox
World Wide WebFirst published6 August 1991; 35 years ago (1991-08-06)1.00infobox
World Wide WebLicensePublic domain (Since April 1993)1.00infobox
World Wide WebOrganizationCERN (1989–1994)1.00infobox
World Wide WebOrganizationW3C (1994–present)1.00infobox
World Wide WebStatusActive1.00infobox
World Wide WebYear started1989; 37 years ago (1989)1.00infobox
World Wide Webis aonly thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it's short for0.90text
World Wide Webis aglobal collection of documents and other resources0.90text
web browsersinstance ofDocuments and other media content are made available to the network through web servers and can be accessed by programs0.80text
203.0.113.4 or 2001instance ofThis lookup returns an IP address0.80text

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