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Also known as the World Wide Web, the W3 or simply as the Web. It was created by British scientist Tim Berners Lee and developed by CERN labs in Geneva, Switzerland. Continuing development of the Web is overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium.

The Web can be described as a client/server hypertext system for retrieving information across the Internet. On the Web, everything is represented as hypertext (in HTML format) and is linked to other documents by their URLs. The Web encompasses its native http protocol, as well as FTP, Gopher, and Telnet. The best way to learn about it, however, is to try it for yourself. (For more details, see What is the Internet?