What does 'WWW' stand for?

Concept

An acronym is formed from the initial letters of the words in a name or phrase. To expand an acronym, preserve both the words represented by the letters and their established order.

For a three-letter acronym, each displayed letter maps in sequence to the corresponding word in the standard full form.

Application

The standard expansion of WWW assigns the first W to World, the second W to Wide, and the third W to Web.

Contrast

• World Wide Web preserves the established word order World → Wide → Web.

• Wide World Web places Wide before World.

• World Web Wide places Web before Wide.

• Web World Wide places Web before World.

Result

Therefore, WWW stands for World Wide Web.