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W3C

(World Wide Web Consortium) The international standards group for the World Wide Web (WWW or W3), funded by its industrial members but operated principally by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), and the Center for European Particle Research (CERN).

Web

See World Wide Web.

Web browser

See browser.

Web server

A program connected to the World Wide Web that furnishes resources upon request from a browser. The requested resource is usually identified by a URL.

World Wide Web

(WWW, W3) A distributed client/server information retrieval system using multiple protocols on the Internet. The client is a browser and the server is a Web server. Typical protocols include HTTP, FTP, and Gopher. Also referred to as the Web or the WWW.

WWW

See World Wide Web.