World Wide Web

== English == === Etymology === From worldwide +‎ web. Coined by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee and Belgian engineer and computer scientist Robert Cailliau in a paper published on 12 November 1990 (see quotations below). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɜːld ˌwaɪd ˈwɛb/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈwɝld ˌwaɪd ˈwɛb/ Rhymes: -ɛb === Proper noun === World Wide Web (Internet) Usually preceded by the: all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet collectively, which are (1) stored in various inter-hyperlinked computers around the world, and (2) retrieved typically by means of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or (currently more often) its secure version (HTTPS), among others. Synonyms: Web, web, W3, WWW ==== Usage notes ==== Although worldwide is a single word (also in the form world-wide), World Wide Web is spelt as three separate words. World Wide Web, Web, and web are sometimes loosely used to refer to the entire Internet, but they are differentiated in precise usage: the Internet includes further non-Web systems such as email (SMTP) and file transfer (BitTorrent, FTP, etc.). ==== Derived terms ==== Wood Wide Web ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== Web 2.0 Web 3.0 Appendix:American Dialect Society words of the year === References === === Further reading === World Wide Web on Wikipedia.Wikipedia