Why do they call the internet the world wide web?

Answer 1

The internet is called the World Wide Web is because when you look at links they all are required to have WWW. In the text to make it work. Also World Wide Web stands for the World usage of internet.

Answer 2

The World Wide Web is often called the Web for short because the term "World Wide" is an adjective, and typically adjectives are dropped from a term when you wish to shorten that term for brevity. For example, a "blue-eyed girl" would be shortened to just "girl" when the context is obvious, not "blue-eyed." You could not grammatically call it the "world" or the "wide", nor even the "world wide." As such, the only shortened term that makes any grammatical sense is "web."

Answer 3

"Web" is short for "World Wide Web" which is where the "www" comes from in a URL.

People sometimes refer to the Internet as "The web" but really this is not accurate. They say that because aside from email the web is what most people do when looking at web sites.

The Internet is the infrastructure that makes the web, email, spam, eCommerce, and everything else on the Internet possible.

Answer 4

because its like a spierds wed it never looses it prey ?

Answer 5

Because it is like a spider's web you can get entangled in it and of it like prey for the spider.