WWW - World Wide Web
The easiest part of the- Internet- to understand and use, the World Wide Web consists of many millions of pages of text and images published by anyone and everyone, from governments and large corporations down to the humblest home user, in a standardised hypertext- format. A particular person or company’s area is called a website. Viewed with a program called a- browser. Wandering around the World Wide Web is often called- Websurfing- or justsurfing.
A loosely organized set of computer sites that publish information that anyone can read via the Internet, mainly using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). Each screenful (page) of information includes menu choices and highlighted words through which the user can call up further information, either from the same computer or by linking automatically to another computer anywhere in the world. Thus, the information is arranged in a web of tremendous size, and the links are created by the author of each page.
The World Wide Web was developed by Timothy Berners-Lee in 1989 for the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, or Conseil Européen pour le Recherche Nucléaire, in French (CERN). Acronym: WWW. Also called: w3, W3, Web.
⠀ Dictionary of Computer and Internet Terms (Vol. 1) John C. Rigdon