Web (disambiguation)

The word web (from English: network, mesh, web, lattice) can refer to:

• World Wide Web (also known as "the Web"), document system (or web pages) interconnected by hypertext links, available on the Internet.
• WorldWideWeb, first web browser, later renamed Nexus;
• Website, document or source of information, usually in HTML format and may contain hyperlinks to other web pages. A website may be accessible from a physical device, an intranet, or Internet.
• Website, set of web pages, typically common to a domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web.
• Web server, program that implements the HTTP protocol to transfer what we call hypertexts, web pages, or HTML pages. This name is also given to the computer running this program.
• Web components, set of features that are currently being added by the W3C to the HTML and DOM specifications so that it allows the creation of widgets or reusable components in documents and web applications.
• Web 1.0, refers to the first state of the World Wide Web, as well as any website designed with an earlier style of the phenomenon of the Web 2.0; it is generally a term created to describe the Web before the impact of the so-called "fiebre point com" of the year 2001, a moment that is seen by many as in which the Internet turned.
• Web 2.0, term coined by Tim O'Reilly (year 2004) to refer to a second generation of the Web based on user communities and a special range of web services, such as social networks, blogs, wikis or folks, that encourage collaboration and agile exchange of information among users.
• Web 3.0, term first emerged in 2006, in an article by Jeffrey Zeldman, critic of the Web 2.0 and associated with technologies such as AJAX; there is currently a considerable debate around what Web 3.0 means, and what is the most successful definition.
• Semantic Web, set of activities developed within the World Wide Web Consortium, aimed at creating technologies to manage data readable by computer applications.