Definition: The World Wide Web is a vast network of hyperlinked documents, content, and multimedia. The World Wide Web resides on the Internet, which is an extremely large, well-organized network of smaller computer networks in every country all over the world.
Content on the World Wide Web is easily accessible via a Web browser. Users click on hyperlinks to get from one Web page to another.
More about the World Wide Web
The History of the World Wide Web: A narrative of World Wide Web history highlights.
Who invented the World Wide Web?: A quick look at the people behind the World Wide Web and how it came to be the way we know it today.
The World Wide Web and the Internet: The World Wide Web and the Internet are not the same thing.
Also Known As: WWW, the Web, Web
