the.com/world wide web

means The system of linked, browsable pages (accessed via browsers and URLs) that sits on top of the internet's raw wiring and turns it into something you can click through.

from Coined around 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, who built it to let researchers link documents across different computers instead of hunting through separate file systems — 'web' for the tangle of hyperlinked connections, 'world wide' because, unlike the lab networks before it, it was designed from the start to span the globe. He also wrote the first browser and server to prove it worked.