World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, a user views Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigates between them using hyperlinks. The World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Since then, Berners-Lee has played an active role in guiding the development of Web standards (such as the markup languages in which Web pages are composed), and in recent years has advocated his vision of a Semantic Web. Robert Cailliau, also at CERN, was an early evangelist for the project

Pronunciation of "www"

Pronunciation of "www"In English, "www" (pronounced "double you double you double you") is the longest possible three-letter acronym to pronounce, requiring nine syllables. Often shorter versions such as "triple w" (pronounced triple double you) and "www" pronounced "wuh wuh wuh" are used as replacements.In New Zealand and Hong Kong, the pronunciation is sometimes shortened to "dub dub dub".In Mandarin Chinese, the World Wide Web is commonly translated to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies "www" and literally means "ten-thousand dimensional net".www is an initialism for World Wide Web, most often styled in lowercase because it appears as the first component of domain names. In English, WWW is the longest possible three-letter acronym to spell out, requiring nine syllables, whereas the twelve letters in "World Wide Web" are pronounced with only three syllables