the World Wide Web
noun
: the part of the Internet that can be looked at with a special program (called a browser) and that is made up of many documents which are linked together
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The idea of Community Notes may have worked really well about 20 to 30 years ago in the early days of the internet, the World Wide Web.
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Lauren Goode, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2025
The transition marks a significant changing of the guard for the 35-year old company, which was one of the early internet resources during the emergence of the World Wide Web.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2025
To help organizations meet their accessibility obligations, the World Wide Web Consortium developed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
—Nayan Padrai, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
While Google’s move cleared the way for new standards, key aspects of Google’s proposal continue to be debated in working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2012
The Archive is best known for its preservation of the ephemeral expanses of the World Wide Web, available through its one-of-a-kind archive/search engine, the Wayback Machine.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
SmartLabel pages also comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) Web Accessibility Initiative, which partners with organizations around the world to provide a high degree of internet usability for people with disabilities.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
In an open letter to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Privacy Group, Aloha addresses the flaws in the current system, while encouraging open collaboration to ensure widespread adoption of its solution.
—Esat Dedezade, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
Think of the World Wide Web, the power grid and the universe, of which the Milky Way is an infinitesimal node in a seemingly boundless network of galaxies.
—Max Bertolero, Scientific American, 1 July 2019
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Lauren Goode, WIRED, 23 Jan. 2025
The transition marks a significant changing of the guard for the 35-year old company, which was one of the early internet resources during the emergence of the World Wide Web.
—Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2025
To help organizations meet their accessibility obligations, the World Wide Web Consortium developed the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
—Nayan Padrai, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
While Google’s move cleared the way for new standards, key aspects of Google’s proposal continue to be debated in working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
—IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2012
The Archive is best known for its preservation of the ephemeral expanses of the World Wide Web, available through its one-of-a-kind archive/search engine, the Wayback Machine.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2024
SmartLabel pages also comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines developed by the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) Web Accessibility Initiative, which partners with organizations around the world to provide a high degree of internet usability for people with disabilities.
—Gary Drenik, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
In an open letter to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Privacy Group, Aloha addresses the flaws in the current system, while encouraging open collaboration to ensure widespread adoption of its solution.
—Esat Dedezade, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
Think of the World Wide Web, the power grid and the universe, of which the Milky Way is an infinitesimal node in a seemingly boundless network of galaxies.
—Max Bertolero, Scientific American, 1 July 2019
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