World Wide Web

Example Sentences

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The World Wide Web emerged just as the Soviet Union was collapsing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

By the mid-1990s, with the introduction of the more user-friendly World Wide Web, bulletin boards fell out of favor.

From Salon • Dec. 8, 2025

OpenAI hopes it will change how people use the World Wide Web, and challenge Google Chrome’s dominance.

From Barron's • Oct. 21, 2025

"If it's smarter than you, then we have to keep it contained," warned Tim Berners Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, talking to the BBC earlier this month.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025

Long before the invention of the World Wide Web, cognitive scientists modeled human memory as a network of nodes.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker