Wiktionary:Word of the day/November 12

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World Wide Web proper n

(Internet) Usually preceded by the: collectively, all of the hypertext documents (web pages) on the Internet stored in different computers around the world that hyperlink to each other and to other kinds of media, and are typically retrieved by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS). Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau coined the term in a formal proposal, published on this day in 1990, to build a “web” of “hypertext documents” to be viewed by “browsers” using a client–server architecture.

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