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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation World Wide Web
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- initialism Initialism of
World Wide Web .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol
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Examples
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Not only fun and interesting for the “flag geek” but educators might find this handy as a tool to actually illustrate just how global the WWW is by using flags to show where servers are located.
Firefox Add-On: Flagfox: See Where Servers are Located, See the Global Web « ResourceShelf 2007
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I do not know why you guys bother to engage in a conversation, answer WWW, is a looser that pull your chain, ignore the poor fellow, he knows not who he is, what is doing and much less what is saying.
Think Progress » Lynne Cheney Unhinged: Insists Her Husband Never Connected Saddam to 9/11 2005
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Every day, I'm amazed by the information ecosystem that we call the WWW and how it has changed the way we educate ourselves for ever.
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The odd thing about the TBL’s WWW is that while it has done a fantastic job of popularizing Vannevar Bush’s idea of associative links (later renamed “Hypertext” by Ted Nelson), it took us far away from the idea of the read/write collaborative web that we’ve only recently begun to re-discovery through the “invention” of Blogs and Wikis.
Original Browser Had Edit Feature « Lorelle on WordPress 2006
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Only the true politics junkies would go to such lengths in informing themselves, but if you really wish to know, the WWW is your friend and it is at your fingertips!
Obama: It's Me Against The D.C. Foreign Policy Establishment 2009
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In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information.
Boing Boing: December 18, 2005 - December 24, 2005 Archives 2005
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I think the WWW will be a leveller of sorts - more pictures are available of non-Maxim-style women than ever before, and I think it's bound to make a difference in perception and action upon same.
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So, for example, if you were a physicist who invented a new protocol called http and a new service that runs on top of it called the WWW, you wouldn't be able to deploy it until you'd gotten all the CloudSheild filters to recognize your new system.
Boing Boing: September 21, 2003 - September 27, 2003 Archives 2003
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Perl is one nice example, so are Tcl, HTML that is, the WWW, X windows, and word processors.
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Perl is one nice example, so are Tcl, HTML that is, the WWW, X windows, and word processors.
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