A web page from Wikipedia displayed in Google Chrome The World Wide Web (also known as WWW, W3, or simply the Web) [1] is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. [2] It allows documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet according to specific rules of the ...
World Wide Web, the leading information retrieval service of the Internet (the worldwide computer network). The Web gives users access to a vast array of content that is connected by means of hyperlinks, electronic connections that link related pieces of information.
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
A Web page is a text document coded with HTML tags that define how text and graphics are displayed. Web pages can be created in any text editor or word processor.