Web Explained

Web may refer to:

Biology

• Spider web, a mesh built by a spider, composed of spider silk and usually used for catching prey.

Computing

• WEB, a computer programming system created by Donald Knuth to implement literate programming
• World Wide Web or "the Web", a hypertext system that operates over the Internet, used for serving Web pages and transferring files
  • WorldWideWeb, the world's first Web browser
  • Web.com, a public company that offers websites and other services for small businesses and consumers
  • Web 2.0, a perceived transition of the Web from a collection of Web sites to a full-fledged computing platform serving Web applications
• WEB is the abbreviation of the sentence World Electronic Broadcast

Publications

• The Web (comics), comic book published by Archie Comics
• Web (Novel) by John Wyndham, posthumously published novel set on an island populated by spiders
• World English Bible(WEB), a public domain translation of the Bible
• The Web (series), a series of science fiction stories

Television and film

• The Web (film), a film noir
• , an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Web Entertainment, a record label
• Webs (film), a 2003 Sci-fi movie

Miscellaneous

• A structure that joins with other component parts
• Offset printing web, a roll of paper is used, rather than individual pages
• Steel I-beams or trusses are made with a web, centered between the top and bottom flange
• Web (manufacturing) continuous sheets of material passed over rollers
• Nets Webs and the Information Infrastructure

See also

• Webb