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World Wide Web

[Internet] A worldwide, decentralized, public information space for sharing documents and conducting business on the Internet. Components of the World Wide Web include information in the form of HTML documents; identification tags (URLs) for the millions of computers that host this information; a set of technical specifications, called HTTP, for sending information from one computer to another; and web browser software for accessing and displaying information.

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