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

And when I started college, there was no email or internet—but by the time I finished graduate school, we had email, laptops, and the World Wide Web.

From Slate • Aug. 30, 2023

While consulting for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, he created the World Wide Web and posted the first Web site in 1991.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman