World Wide Web (WWW)

The World Wide Web is the system of linked documents and applications accessed over the internet using web browsers.

What is World Wide Web (WWW)?

Invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989, the web runs on top of the internet using HTTP, HTML and URLs. The web and the internet are often confused: the internet is the underlying network, and the web is one service on it.

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