What is the World Wide Web? - Twila Camp. The World Wide Web in Plain English. World Wide Web, Internet. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) The World Wide Web Explained. World Wide Web. The World Wide Web (abbreviated as WWW or W3,[3] commonly known as the web) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.
With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks. History[edit] In the May 1970 issue of Popular Science magazine, Arthur C.