global system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 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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