The World Wide Web When your average person on the street refers to the Internet, they're usually thinking of the World Wide Web The Web is basically a series of documents shared with the world written in a coding language called Hyper Text Markup Language or HTML When you see a web page, like this one, you downloaded a document from another computer which has been set up as a Web Server
This is short for the world wide web (WWW) Most people generally associate the WWW with the Internet, though incorrect as the Internet is a separate, though associated, entity The Internet is a giant network of computers, where the WWW is a way to access information located on one of the many computers of the Internet The documents on the WWW are formatted in HTML, which supports links to other documents on the WWW, as well as video, sounds, and graphics One can access items on the WWW through the use of a browser The two most popular browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator
{i} net created by a spider; net, mesh; World Wide Web, network of HTML documents which are linked together and located all over the world (Computers, Internet); weave, fabric; network (of lies, etc.)
membrane connecting the toes of some aquatic birds and mammals an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim a fabric (especially a fabric in the process of being woven) an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving; "the trees cast a delicate web of shadows over the lawn"