More important, large pools of enthusiasts started to converge into something that was truly a Worldwide web.
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This included a blackout across significant portions of the Worldwide Web, with Wikipedia going dark and Google blackening its logo.
More presentations, more PowerPoints, a whole worldwide web of talking heads wielding bar graphs and reasoned argumentation and an overarching message of impending doom.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently recruited Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the worldwide web, to look into opening access to more government data.
Here's how quickly the worldwide web has affected American politics.
But as we've noted before, digital communication -- tweets, Facebook messages, e-mails and the like, are fraught with peril -- a tangled worldwide Web of miscommunication, bungles and snafus.
That's one of the findings of a recent worldwide survey by Web security company McAfee.
The worldwide World Wide Web - any device, any platform, any bandwidth, absolutely anywhere in the world.
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It has installed Internet phone service for 2, 400 workers worldwide and enabled Web seminars for up to 12, 200 people at once.
"Firefox is holding its own in the face of increased competition, with hundreds of millions of users worldwide choosing a web browser that answers only to them, " a Mozilla spokeswoman said in a statement.
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On a typical day one in five Web pages worldwide comes via an Akamai computer.
Because it allows otherwise incompatible machines to communicate, Java has worked its way onto an estimated 100 million cell phones worldwide, plus countless Web sites, computers and handhelds.
So there is my second lesson: The Web may be worldwide, but it pays to shop local.
It runs the consumer e-mail service for dozens of carriers worldwide and recently bought a Web photo- and video-sharing site called Twango.
And a growing number of people worldwide own smartphones, which add Web surfing, apps, games and GPS-mapping to the list of diversions available to phone users in the driver's seat.
According to a new collection of statistics by the web site Pingdom, as of January 2012, of the 2.1 billion active Internet users worldwide, 1.2 billion people access the web via a mobile device.
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There are just 10 countries worldwide that host 86 percent of the web resources used to spread malware.
The plan is to rally people worldwide, via the smallthingschallenge.com Web site, to push for development and education in emerging countries.
The silver lining here is that the web got 500 million people online worldwide and they're still there - they haven't left.
And there's the special early-childhood "Kidsmart" technology centers--40, 000 of them worldwide--for very young children, and Web-based assistance for teachers and parents, which have proved to be very effective in helping young children start their education.
But the intention is clearly to attract thousands of smaller developers worldwide, who can easily create new apps for the Web, and transpose to the Web existing mobile apps.
It's one of several handmade craft sites that use the Web to tug on the long tail of artists worldwide who previously sold only to people in their community.
The case grew into a worldwide sensation as thousands followed the trial via a live, unedited Web feed.
Especially now that web 2.0 has made real-time, worldwide gaming easy and cheap, group play is mushrooming at an astonishing rate.
That sounds strange because Facebook, with some 1 billion members worldwide, presumably is getting pretty close to the reach of the Web.
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