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World Wide Web

Also known as WWW or the Web.

A service that operates over the Internet to create and link together graphics, documents and files. A program called a web browser retrieves information such as web pages and other computer files from web servers and displays them, typically on a computer monitor, using a markup language that determines the details of the display. The user can then follow hyperlinks in each page to other resources on the World Wide Web of information whose location is provided by these hyperlinks.

The act of following hyperlinks is often called 'browsing' or 'surfing' the Web.