World Wide Web

Etymology
From +,  (born 1955) and  (born 1947) in a paper published on 12 November 1990: see the quotation.

Proper noun

 * 1)  Usually preceded by : collectively, all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet stored in different computers around the world that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media, and are typically retrieved by the  (HTTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS).

Usage notes

 * Although is a single word (also in the form ), World Wide Web is spelt as three separate words.
 * World Wide Web,, and are sometimes loosely used to refer to the entire Internet, but they are differentiated in precise usage: the Internet includes further non-Web systems such as email (SMTP) and file transfer (BitTorrent, FTP, etc.).

Translations

 * Afrikaans: Wêreldwye web
 * Arabic: شَبَكَة عَنْكَبُوتِيَّة عَالَمِيَّة
 * Bulgarian: Световна мрежа
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: webben
 * Esperanto: Tut-Tera Teksaĵo
 * Finnish: maailmanlaajuinen tietoverkko,, ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: ქსელი, მსოფლიო აბლაბუდა, მსოფლიო გლობალური ქსელი, მსოფლიო კომპიუტერული ქსელი, მსოფლიო ქსელი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: veraldarvefurinn
 * Indonesian: Waring Wera Wanua, Jaringan Jagat Jembar
 * Irish: Gréasán Domhanda
 * Japanese: ワールド ワイド ウェブ
 * Kazakh: әлемтор, ғаламтор
 * Korean: 웹, 월드 와이드 웹
 * Latin: Tela Totius Terrae
 * Lithuanian: saitynas, žiniatinklis
 * Macedonian: Све́тска мре́жа
 * Malay: jaringan sejagat
 * Maori: Tukutuku Ao Whānui
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: verdensveven
 * Nynorsk: verdsveven
 * Polish: World Wide Web, ogólnoświatowa sieć
 * Portuguese:, , rede mundial de computadores,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: विश्वव्यापीजाल
 * Serbo-Croatian: World Wide Web
 * Sotho: Marangrang a phatlalletseng
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: pandaigdigang-sapot,
 * Tamil:
 * Thai: เวิลด์ไวด์เว็บ
 * Turkish:, Dünya Çapında Ağ
 * Ukrainian: Всесві́тнє павути́ння, веб
 * Venda: webe yo ṱanganyaho shango
 * Volapük: volaresod
 * Welsh: Gwe Fyd-Eang
 * Xhosa: uthungelwano lwehlabathi kwi-intanethi
 * Zulu: Isizindalwazi sokuxhumana somhlaba jikelele