How to Use the World Wide Web in a Sentence
the World Wide Web
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Few investors had heard of the World Wide Web, let alone grasped its commercial potential.
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Dave Smith,
Fortune,
15 Dec. 2025
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Few investors had heard of the World Wide Web, let alone grasped its commercial potential.
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Dave Smith,
Fortune,
19 Feb. 2026
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Some attempted to move, wholesale, to Usenet or the World Wide Web, while others simply pulled the plug and turned off the lights.
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IEEE Spectrum,
24 Oct. 2016
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In 1993, the launch of the World Wide Web made the internet accessible to the public.
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Roxanne Downer,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
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When the World Wide Web was first unveiled to the public back in 1993, it was met with widespread resistance and heavy skepticism.
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William Jones,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
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For the next few years, as the World Wide Web emerged, websites were measured in kilobytes, images were small and compressed, and video was essentially impossible.
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ArsTechnica,
11 Aug. 2025
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Thirty-six years after its invention, the World Wide Web stands as one of the most transformative innovations of our time, and arguably the eighth wonder of the modern world.
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Akram Atallah,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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For example, the World Wide Web was first established at CERN as a tool to help scientists share data across their institutions.
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Mariangela Lisanti,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Mar. 2026
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For example, the World Wide Web was first established at CERN as a tool to help scientists share data across their institutions.
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Mariangela Lisanti,
Twin Cities,
27 Mar. 2026
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What started as doubt about the World Wide Web in 1993 has turned into a detailed data system where every interaction produces useful information.
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William Jones,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
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In the late ‘90s and early ‘00s, home computers became commonplace, and the ways in which early users of the World Wide Web were substantially different from those of today.
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William Jones,
IndyStar,
6 Nov. 2025
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The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the primary gateway to the World Wide Web for millions of users throughout the 1990s and early 2000s.
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ArsTechnica,
11 Aug. 2025
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At Davos this year, global leaders spoke about AI, not as a software tool, but as an immense industrial buildout on par with the industrial revolution, and the rise of the World Wide Web in the 1990s.
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Travis Edmonds,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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By the late 1990s and early 2000s, when something called the World Wide Web became the craze, the NFL made Super Bowl Week an event and a spectacle.
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Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
3 Feb. 2026
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For the sake of context, the NFL’s 70th season—which coincided with Tim Berners-Lee’s invention of the World Wide Web—averaged 19 million viewers per game.
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Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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Although the World Wide Web had existed for two years, nobody really knew how to make money off it, at least besides domain squatters, internet service providers like AOL, and browser providers like Netscape (which would soon be decimated by Microsoft).
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Mark Dent,
HubSpot,
26 Sep. 2025
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