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title: "What is the World Wide Web?"  
description: "What is the World Wide Web?"  
author: "Shrikant Mishra"  
published: 2020-12-07  
updated: 2020-12-07  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156264/what-is-the-world-wide-web  
category: "search engine optimization"  
tags: ["web development", "web application", "internet"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is the World Wide Web?

What is the [World Wide Web](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/3044/how-world-wide-web-www-origin)?

## Replies

### Reply by Anshu Dwivedi

The worldwide [web](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12783/the-ultimate-bunch-of-free-web-design-resources) is a collection of web pages found on this network. It uses the internet to access the web. www serves no technical purpose. it has been around since the internet, came and its widespread use as a subdomain was largely accidental.


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