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World Wide Web (WWW)

 or Web

Leading information-exchange service of the Internet. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN and introduced to the world in 1991. The Web gives users access to a vast array of documents that are connected to each other by means of hypertext or hyperlinks. A hypertext document with its corresponding text and hyperlinks is written in HTML and is assigned an on-line address, or URL. The Web operates within the Internet's basic client-server architecture. Individual HTML files with unique electronic addresses are called Web pages, and a collection of Web pages and related files (such as graphics files, scripted programs, and other resources) sharing a set of similar addresses (see domain name) is called a Web site. The main or introductory page of a Web site is usually called the site's home page. Users may access any page by typing in the appropriate address, search for pages related to a topic of interest by using a search engine, or move quickly between pages by clicking on hyperlinks incorporated into them. Though introduced in 1991, the Web did not become truly popular until the introduction of Mosaic, a browser with a graphical interface, in 1993. Subsequently, browsers produced by Netscape and Microsoft have become predominant.

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Web

See World Wide Web.

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web

1. a mesh of fine tough scleroprotein threads built by a spider from a liquid secreted from its spinnerets and used to trap insects

2. a similar network of threads spun by certain insect larvae, such as the silkworm

3. a fabric, esp one in the process of being woven

4. a membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds or the digits of such aquatic mammals as the otter

5. the vane of a bird's feather

6. Architect the surface of a ribbed vault that lies between the ribs

7. the central section of an I-beam or H-beam that joins the two flanges of the beam

8. any web-shaped part of a casting used for reinforcement

9. the radial portion of a crank that connects the crankpin to the crankshaft

10. a thin piece of superfluous material left attached to a forging; fin

11. the woven edge, without pile, of some carpets

12. short for World Wide Web

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1.	(language)	WEB - Donald Knuth's self-documenting literate programming, with algorithms and documentation intermixed in one file. They can be separated using Weave and Tangle. Versions exist for Pascal and C. Spiderweb can be used to create versions for other languages. FunnelWeb is a production-quality literate-programming tool. ftp://princeton.edu/, ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/. ["Literate Programming", D.E. Knuth, Computer J 27(2):97-111, May 1984].
2.	(World-Wide Web)	Web - "The Web" is the World-Wide Web. "A web" is part of it on some specific website.