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The World Wide Web (WWW) is used to organize information as a set of hypertext documents on the Internet. It allows you to find and display files, pictures, and sounds on the Internet by choosing items via "hypertext" links. These links, usually in the form of highlighted text or icons, appear on "pages" of mixed text and pictorial information and allow information to be interconnected in nonlinear ways. If you are looking at this text on your computer, then you are on WWW.
Many K-12 schools and school districts have begun to use WWW for electronic publishing of student work, administrative, and parent-teacher information. Many universities are using WWW to both supplement traditionally delivered courses and to deliver entire courses over the Internet. Thus far, this mode seems to work best for science and math oriented courses - or courses using a lot of symbols and graphics.