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World Wide Web

[wurld wahyd web] / ˈwɜrld ˌwaɪd ˈwɛb /
NOUN
major computer network
Synonyms
WEAK
Internet WWW cyberspace hypertext documents information server information superhighway net the Net 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

Mainframe computers were disrupted by PCs, which were disrupted by the World Wide Web, which was disrupted by smartphones.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

If this is how a professed advocate for an open-source world is behaving, is there really any future left for the open-source dream of the World Wide Web?

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2024

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