World Wide Web (WWW)

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The World Wide Web (WWW) is a network of online content that is formatted in Hypertext markup language (HTML) and accessed via Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The term refers to all the interlinked HTML pages that can be accessed over the Internet. The World Wide Web was originally designed in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee while he was a contractor at CERN.

The World Wide Web is most often referred to simply as “the Web.”

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