# World Wide Web **Domain:** Internet History / Information Infrastructure / Hypertext **Doc Type:** Infrastructure Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[CERN]], [[Internet]], hypertext, [[Cognitive Exteriorization]] --- ## Definition The **World Wide Web** is a globally distributed hypertext system built on standards for identifying, transferring and presenting linked resources over the internet. ## Corpus Context Created at [[CERN]] to support information exchange, the Web became a planetary memory and coordination layer. It is not itself a mind, but it is part of the external cognitive substrate through which human and machine agents discover, relate and act on information. ## Backlinks [[CERN]] · [[International Telecommunication Union]] ## Sources / Provenance - [The birth of the Web](https://info.cern.ch/)