The World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a widely distributed service for the dissemination of human-processable information (by means of HTTP and HTML).

• AKA: WWW, The Web, Web.
• Context:
  • It can be the Surface Web or the Deep Web.
  • It can be supported by
    • a Web Server.
    • a Web Client.
  • It can support:
    • B2B Commerce.
    • B2C Commerce.
    • the Semantic Web.
    • Social Media.
  • It can support a Web-based Application.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • The Semantic Web.
• See: Email, FTP, Internet, Web Server, Web User.

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References

• http://www.lib.fsu.edu/help/libraryterms
  • World Wide Web (WWW): the set of information resources that exist on hypertext Internet servers.

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