See World Wide Web on Wiktionary
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"ref": "[1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), archived from the original on 2020-11-10:",
"text": "WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project [title] […] Having a world wide web implies some solutions must be found for problems such as different access protocols and different node content formats. These issues are addressed by our proposal.",
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"ref": "1993 February 28, John Markoff, “A web of networks, an abundance of services”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-09, page 8:",
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"text": "Although the Internet has long been used to communicate a wealth of information, it was the rise of the World Wide Web, beginning in 1994, that led to the Internet's most rapid growth and acceptance as a medium of commerce. The Web can be thought of as the Internet's popular \"multimedia\" segment and is a primary platform for electronic commerce.",
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"ref": "2008, Rajendra Akerkar, Pawan Lingras, “Introduction to Web Intelligence”, in Building an Intelligent Web: Theory and Practice, Sudbury, Mass.: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, section 1.1 (Historical Perspective), page 1:",
"text": "Consider for a moment that the Internet is about 40 years old, the microelectronics explosion happened only 30 years ago, the desktop computer appeared only about 25 years ago, the World Wide Web is really only a little more than a decade old, and that ubiquitous wireless Internet access is only now becoming a reality. Despite only relatively recent developmental history, we are facing an information explosion on the World Wide Web, making it necessary to build a better Web—an Intelligent Web—that will help users easily realize their information and communication needs.",
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"word": "Dünya Çapında Ağ"
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"word": "Всесві́тнє павути́ння"
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"ref": "[1990 November 12, Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau, “WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project”, in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), archived from the original on 2020-11-10:",
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"ref": "1993 February 28, John Markoff, “A web of networks, an abundance of services”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-11-09, page 8:",
"text": "Additionally, gateways exist so that WAIS users can retrieve information from non-WAIS data bases like Gopher, developed by university users of Next computers, and the World Wide Web, which makes available physicists' research from many locations.",
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"ref": "2000, Jodi Dean, “Webs of Conspiracy”, in Andrew Herman, Thomas Swiss, editors, The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, →ISBN, page 63:",
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"text": "Although the Internet has long been used to communicate a wealth of information, it was the rise of the World Wide Web, beginning in 1994, that led to the Internet's most rapid growth and acceptance as a medium of commerce. The Web can be thought of as the Internet's popular \"multimedia\" segment and is a primary platform for electronic commerce.",
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"ref": "2008, Rajendra Akerkar, Pawan Lingras, “Introduction to Web Intelligence”, in Building an Intelligent Web: Theory and Practice, Sudbury, Mass.: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, section 1.1 (Historical Perspective), page 1:",
"text": "Consider for a moment that the Internet is about 40 years old, the microelectronics explosion happened only 30 years ago, the desktop computer appeared only about 25 years ago, the World Wide Web is really only a little more than a decade old, and that ubiquitous wireless Internet access is only now becoming a reality. Despite only relatively recent developmental history, we are facing an information explosion on the World Wide Web, making it necessary to build a better Web—an Intelligent Web—that will help users easily realize their information and communication needs.",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "Wêreldwye web"
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "شَبَكَة عَنْكَبُوتِيَّة عَالَمِيَّة"
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"roman": "Svetovna mreža",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "萬維網 /万维网"
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"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
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"word": "webben"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "maailmanlaajuinen tietoverkko"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"word": "Toile d’araignée mondiale"
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"roman": "kseli",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "ქსელი"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "msoplio ablabuda",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "მსოფლიო აბლაბუდა"
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "მსოფლიო კომპიუტერული ქსელი"
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "მსოფლიო ქსელი"
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"word": "World Wide Web"
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"code": "id",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"code": "id",
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"code": "ga",
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "ワールド ワイド ウェブ"
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"code": "kk",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"roman": "vəəl vaay veep",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "វើលវ៉ាយវ៉េប"
},
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"code": "ko",
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"roman": "Woldeu waideu wep",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "월드 와이드 웹"
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"word": "Tela Totius Terrae"
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"code": "lt",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"code": "mk",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"tags": [
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "Tukutuku Ao Whānui"
},
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"word": "World Wide Web"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
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"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "เวิลด์ไวด์เว็บ"
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"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "World Wide Web"
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "Dünya Çapında Ağ"
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"roman": "Vsesvítnje pavutýnnja",
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"code": "xh",
"lang": "Xhosa",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "uthungelwano lwehlabathi kwi-intanethi"
},
{
"code": "zu",
"lang": "Zulu",
"sense": "all of the web pages on the Internet that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media",
"word": "Isizindalwazi sokuxhumana somhlaba jikelele"
}
],
"word": "World Wide Web"
}
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