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  2. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software user agent for accessing information on the World Wide Web. To connect to a website's server and display its pages, a user needs to have a web browser program. This is the program that the user runs to download, format, and display a web page on the user's computer.

  3. Internet access - Wikipedia

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    e. Internet access is a facility or service that provides connectivity for a computer, a computer network, or other network device to the Internet, and for individuals or organizations to access or use applications such as email and the World Wide Web. Internet access is offered for sale by an international hierarchy of Internet service ...

  4. Web browser - Wikipedia

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    Web browser. A web browser is an application for accessing websites. When a user requests a web page from a particular website, the browser retrieves its files from a web server and then displays the page on the user's screen. Browsers are used on a range of devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.

  5. History of the World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3" or simply "the Web") is a global information medium that users can access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as email and Usenet do.

  6. Internet - Wikipedia

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    e. The Internet (or internet) [a] is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) [b] to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of ...

  7. Computer network - Wikipedia

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    Computer networks support many applications and services, such as access to the World Wide Web, digital video and audio, shared use of application and storage servers, printers and fax machines, and use of email and instant messaging applications.

  8. Web accessibility - Wikipedia

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    Web accessibility, or eAccessibility, [1] is the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to, websites on the World Wide Web by people with physical disabilities, situational disabilities, and socio-economic restrictions on bandwidth and speed. When sites are correctly designed, developed and ...

  9. Web page - Wikipedia

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    Web page. Each Wikipedia article is a distinct web page. The URL is visible in the browser's address bar at the top. A web page (or webpage) is a document on the Web that is accessed in a web browser. [1] A website typically consists of many web pages linked together under a common domain name. The term "web page" is thus a metaphor of paper ...