World Wide Web
concept · 1989 · Digital age
A system of linked hypertext documents on top of the Internet.
Authors: Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau.
Principles and materials it uses
- Internet — uses. The web runs on top of the Internet.
- Hypertext — uses. The web is hypertext.
- HTML — uses. The pages of the web.
- HTTP — uses. The protocol of the web.
- URL — uses. Addresses.
Where it is used
- Web browser — is used in. It displays web pages.
- Search engine — is used in. It indexes the web.
- Large language model — is used in. They are trained on texts from the web.
- Social network — is used in. It runs on the web.
- Wiki — is used in. A website.
- E-commerce — is used in. Web shops.
- RSS — is used in. The web.
- Blog — is used in. The web.
- Online courses — is used in. The web.
- Online maps — is used in. Online maps open in a browser over the web.
History: what it evolved from and what it influenced
- Particle accelerator — was inspired by. The web was invented at CERN for sharing physicists’ data.