Resembling a spider's web, or having thin strands connecting things together like a web; also can describe something online or internet-related.
From 'web' (Old English 'webb,' meaning woven cloth) plus '-y' suffix. The digital meaning emerged with the World Wide Web in the 1990s.
The World Wide Web was named by Tim Berners-Lee specifically because information felt like an interconnected web rather than a hierarchy—he picked the word to change how we imagine knowledge itself.
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