The World Wide Web ("WWW" or "The Web") is the part of the Internet that contains websites and webpages. It was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a new markup language called HTML. Websites comprise of pages linked by hypertext links that are written in HTML.
- "The Web" redirects here. For other uses, see Web (disambiguation).
The software to see the World Wide Web is called a web browser. To access the World Wide Web, one also needs a connection to the Internet.
Many companies nowadays offer website hosting allowing one to make websites that can be displayed on the World Wide Web, including a custom domain (www.stuff.com) site.
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- World Wide Web -Citizendium
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