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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › World_Wide_WebWorld Wide Web - Wikipedia

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   The World Wide Web functions as an application layer protocol that is run "on top of" (figuratively) the Internet, helping to make it more functional. The advent of the Mosaic web browser helped to make the web much more usable, to include the display of images and moving images (GIFs).

2. www.youtube.com › watchWhat is the world wide web? - Twila Camp - YouTube

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   View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-the-world-wide-web-twila-campThe world wide web is used every day by millions of people for everything fr...

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4. ed.ted.com › lessons › what-is-the-world-wide-webWhat is the World Wide Web? - TED-Ed

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   The World Wide Web is used every day by millions of people for everything from checking the weather to sharing cat videos. But what is it exactly? Twila Camp describes this interconnected information system as a virtual city that everyone owns and explains how it’s organized in a way that mimics our brain’s natural way of thinking. Watch ...

5. www.explainthatstuff.com › howthewebworksHow the World Wide Web works - Explain that Stuff

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   Apr 23, 2023 · You can read more in our article about how the Internet works. The Web is the worldwide collection of text pages, digital photographs, music files, videos, and animations you can access over the Internet. What makes the Web so special (and, indeed, gives it its name) is the way all this information is connected together.

6. home.cern › science › computingThe birth of the Web | CERN

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   The first website at CERN – and in the world – was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer. In 2013, CERN launched a project to restore this first ever website: info.cern.ch. On 30 April 1993, CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain.

7. www.livescience.com › world-wide-webWorld Wide Web: Definition, history and facts | Live Science

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   Mar 31, 2022 · World Wide Web Consortium, "Longer Biography", accessed March 2022. "Internet Live Stats, "Total number of websites", accessed March 2022. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now.

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   What is the World Wide Web?

   • Let’s Begin… The World Wide Web is used every day by millions of people for everything from checking the weather to sharing cat videos. But what is it exactly? Twila Camp describes this interconnected information system as a virtual city that everyone owns and explains how it’s organized in a way that mimics our brain’s natural way of thinking.

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   How does the World Wide Web work?

   • The World Wide Web functions as an application layer protocol that is run "on top of" (figuratively) the Internet, helping to make it more functional. The advent of the Mosaic web browser helped to make the web much more usable, to include the display of images and moving images (GIFs).

   World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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   Are the Internet and the World Wide Web the same thing?

   • Many people think that the internet and the world wide web are the same thing. While they are closely linked, they are very different things. The internet is a global network of computers all connected together. The world wide web (‘www’ or ‘web’ for short) is a collection of webpages found on this global network of computers.

   What is the world wide web? - BBC Bitesize

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   Who created the World Wide Web?

   • The World Wide Web was created by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Creating WWW. Before the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW), the earliest internet users were mainly researchers and military personnel.

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   Is there a logo for the World Wide Web?

   • Currently, there is no widely accepted logo in use for the WWW. The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) 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. [ 1 ]

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   How many websites are there?

   • By 1994 there were around 3,000 websites in existence, according to the World Economic Forum. After such a roaring success, Berners-Lee created W3C, a web standards organisation that also develops web specifications, guidelines, software and tools.

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9. www.bbc.co.uk › bitesize › articlesWhat is the world wide web? - BBC Bitesize

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   The internet is a global network of computers, whereas the world wide web is an application that runs on the internet. It was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The internet already existed ...