World Wide Web. Also known as w 3 and the Web. A global interlinked hypertext system that uses the Internet infrastructure to network client workstations and servers all around the world based on the Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP). Documents on the WWW -- known as pages, home pages, or Web pages -- are written in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), and are transmitted over the Internet through the use of HTTP.The WWW also incorporates hypermedia, which is hyperlinked multimedia, including not only text, but also audio, graphics, animations, and video.Tim Berners-Lee developed the WWW at l'Conseil Europ