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The 48 pages that link to World Wide Web, each with the reason it gives.

• Content delivery networkNarrower topic: The web's expanding use of images, downloads, and video made centralized delivery costly.

• HTMLNarrower topic: HTML emerged as the document language for the World Wide Web.

• HTTPNarrower topic: HTTP became the Web’s principal protocol for transferring resources.

• Web browserNarrower topic: Browsers made this system practical to explore through linked pages and shared standards.

• Hypertext Transfer ProtocolNarrower topic: The Web uses HTTP to transfer resources between servers and user agents.

• World Wide Web ConsortiumNarrower topic: The consortium develops standards for this system.

• Dot-com bubbleNarrower topic: The web created the new commercial platform that investors expected startups to transform.

• Internet cultureNarrower topic: The web greatly expanded the reach and visibility of online cultural forms.

• Semantic WebNarrower topic: The Semantic Web extends the document-centered web with structured, machine-interpretable relationships.

• HyperlinkNarrower topic: The web made hyperlinks a standard way to connect globally accessible documents.

• WikiNarrower topic: Wikis use the web’s browser-based publishing and hyperlink infrastructure.

• Netscape NavigatorNarrower topic: Navigator emerged as the web began expanding beyond research institutions.

• UTF-8Narrower topic: UTF-8 is the dominant character encoding for web content.

• Web standardsNarrower topic: Web standards define the shared rules that let this system function across implementations.

• Web pageNarrower topic: Web pages are a principal document form through which the Web presents information.

• Dark webNarrower topic: The dark web is one way web services can be hosted and accessed.

• WebsiteNarrower topic: A website is one organized presence within the larger Web.

• Brendan EichNarrower topic: JavaScript’s original purpose was to add behavior to web documents.

• Common Gateway InterfaceNarrower topic: CGI developed as a way to make early web pages respond dynamically to requests.