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n. - Computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text and graphics and sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol - acronym, world-wide-web.

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  • Every day, I'm amazed by the information ecosystem that we call the WWW and how it has changed the way we educate ourselves for ever.
  • In 1989 one of the main objectives of the WWW was to be a space for sharing information.
  • Perl is one nice example, so are Tcl, HTML that is, the WWW, X windows, and word processors.
  • (At least when people were asking for ten years of web development experience in 1995, the web wasn't called WWW-90)
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