Web

Leading information-exchange service of the Internet. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee and his colleagues at CERN and introduced to the world in 1991. The Web gives users access to a vast array of documents that are connected to each other by means of hypertext or hyperlinks. A hypertext document with its corresponding text and hyperlinks is written in HTML and is assigned an on-line address, or URL. The Web operates within the Internet's basic client-server architecture. Individual HTML files with unique electronic addresses are called Web pages, and a collection of Web pages and related files (such as graphics files, scripted programs, and other resources) sharing a set of similar addresses (see domain name) is called a Web site. The main or introductory page of a Web site is usually called the site's home page. Users may access any page by typing in the appropriate address, search for pages related to a topic of interest by using a search engine, or move quickly between pages by clicking on hyperlinks incorporated into them. Though introduced in 1991, the Web did not become truly popular until the introduction of Mosaic, a browser with a graphical interface, in 1993. Subsequently, browsers produced by Netscape and Microsoft have become predominant.

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Biology

• Spider web, a mesh built by a spider, composed of spider silk and usually used for trapping prey like flies and other insects

Computing

• WEB, a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth to implement literate programming
• World Wide Web or "the Web", invented in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, -- a hypertext system that operates over the Internet, used for serving Web pages and transferring files
• WorldWideWeb, the world's first Web browser
• Web.com, a public company that offers websites and other services for small businesses and consumers
• Web 2.0, a perceived transition of the Web from a collection of Web sites to a full-fledged computing platform serving Web applications
• WEB is the abbreviation of the sentence World Electronic Broadcast

Publications

• The Web (comics), comic book published by Archie Comics
• Web (Novel) by John Wyndham, posthumously published novel set on an island populated by spiders
• World English Bible(WEB), a public domain translation of the Bible
• The Web (series), a series of science fiction stories

Television and film

• The Web (film), a film noir
• Web (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Web Entertainment, a record label
• Webs (film), a 2003 Sci-fi movie
• The Web ReBoot, a form of space in the Reboot universe where concentrated, fragmented data gives home to dangerous creatures, storms, and causes degradation in those not of the Web

Miscellaneous

• A structure that joins with other component parts
• Offset printing web, a roll of paper is used, rather than individual pages
• Steel I-beams or trusses are made with a web, centered between the top and bottom flange
• Web Entertainment, a discography label owned by the Bass Brothers
• Web (manufacturing) continuous sheets of material passed over rollers
• Nets, Webs and the Information Infrastructure

See also

• Webb