World Wide Web (WWW)
Definition
Collection of internet resources (such as FTP, telnet, Usenet), hyperlinked text, audio, and video files, and remote sites that can be accessed and searched by browsers based on standards such as HTTP and TCP/IP. Also called the web, it was created in 1989 by the UK physicist Tim Berners-Lee while working at the European Particle Physics Laboratory (called CERN after its French initials Conseil Europeen de Reserches Nucleaires) in Switzerland, as an easier way to access information scattered across the internet.
World Wide Web (WWW) is in the Internet & World Wide Web subject.
World Wide Web (WWW) appears in the definitions of the following terms:
technology multipliers,
browser,
surfing,
internet,
searching,
discontinuity,
web access,
browsing,
Conseil Europeen de Recherche Nucleaire (CERN),
web
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