Question

The computer jargon-wwww, stands for
A)world wide web worm
B)world-wide wildlife web
C)world-wide women’s web
D)world-wide women’s week

Answer 1

Hint: The wwww was one of the earliest search engines for the www. It was first developed in 1993 by Oliver McBryan as a research project in the University of Colorado. It wasn’t released till march of 1994 and few claimed it to be the first search engine to be on the internet.

Complete answer:
The wwww stands for world wide web worm. The world wide web worm is the first search engine for the world-wide web, although many others were already made available publicly. This worm created a database of 300,000 multimedia objects which can be obtained when someone searched for keywords via the www. The wwww featured support for Perl regular expressions in contrast to search engines nowadays.

So, the correct answer is “Option A”.

Additional Information:
World-wide worm web can be used for publicity, marketing and advertising, direct online selling, research and development, communication purposes, collaboration, industrial classification and multimedia. It is one of the first indexing programs. The world wide web worm is sometimes confused with the internet worm which was a virus unleashed into the internet in the late 1980s. This program is used to catalogue the huge content present in the world wide web. This program indexed about 110,000 web pages as of 1994. It also created a database of 300,000 multimedia objects. The creator of this project, McBryan in a 2016 podcast shared that the world wide web worm was an educational project and also told that he never thought of commercializing it to excite or yahoo as his university did not have a special compartment to take care of the computer technology.

Note:
In the early 1980s, the world wide web worm was confused with the internet worm. This internet worm is an internet virus that was uploaded to the internet. The internet worm is a malicious software that self-replicates and distributes the copies of their own data. This virus caused a lot of inconvenience to the computer and internet users.