# 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]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Almost any medical condition with an acute episode—like an asthma attack, seizure, autoimmune attack, stroke, heart attack—will be potentially predictable in the future with artificial intelligence and the Internet of all medical things." > **— Eric Topol**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Digital Life/AI May Predict Medical Crises Before They Happen by Eric Topol|AI May Predict Medical Crises Before They Happen by Eric Topol]] > "An artificial intelligence will quickly find its way to the world library, the web." > **— Matthew Ritchie**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* [[reminders/Digital Life/Artificial Intelligence Will Enter the World Library by Matthew Ritchie|Artificial Intelligence Will Enter the World Library by Matthew Ritchie]] ## Sources / Provenance - [The birth of the Web](https://info.cern.ch/)