Return to. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. 2008-10-21: All this week, the World Wide Web Consortium holds its annual Technical Plenary week near its European host site in France. www. w3. org/. The World Wide Web (known as "WWW', "Web" or "W3") is the universe of network-accessible information, the embodiment of human knowledge. The World Wide Web began as a networked information project at CERN, where Tim Berners-Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C], developed a vision of the project. www. w3. org/WWW/. The World Wide Web is a way of exchanging information between computers on the Internet, tying them together into a vast collection of interactive multimedia resources. kb. iu. edu/data/acqj. html. var wikiImage = new Image(); wikiImage. onload = function() &ob;if(this. height 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, v. en. wikipedia. org/wiki/World_Wide_Web. The Difference Between the Internet and the World Wide Web Many people use the terms Internet and World Wide Web (aka. the Web) interchangeably, but in fact the two terms are not synonymous. www. webopedia. com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/Web_vs_Inter. www. webopedia. com/DidYouKnow/Internet/2002/Web_vs_Internet. asp. This page describes the term World Wide Web and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information. There are several applications called Web browsers that make it easy to access the World Wide Web; Two of the most popular being Netscape Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. www. webopedia. com/TERM/W/World_Wide_Web. html www. webopedia. com/TERM/W/World_Wide_Web. html. Find sites with tutorials, downloads, web development guides, and other resources about the World Wide Web. Wikipedia: World Wide Web Article describing the World Wide Web (WWW), including how it works, technologies involved, sociological implications, issues, standards, and more. www. yahoo. com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wid. www. yahoo. com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/. A technical definition of the World Wide Web is: all the resources and users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). A broader definition comes from the organization that Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee helped found, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): searchcrm. techtarget. com/sDefinition/0,,sid11_gci213391. searchcrm. techtarget. com/sDefinition/0,,sid11_gci213391,00. html. Tim Berners-Lee followed his dream of a better, easier way to communicate via computers on a global scale, which led him to create the World Wide Web. Robert Cailliau, collaborator on the World Wide Web project and first Web surfer. info. cern. ch/.