It is a file suffix, i.e. music.wav. The short form term for the World Wide Web. A vast network of data and information resources on the Internet, connected to one another via hyperlinks and usually using a graphical format. Most ecommerce takes place on the Web. Operate much like viruses but are capable of travel along a network on their own.
Worms travel along connections and copy themselves onto remote computers at exponential rates.
Worms slow down Internet sites and cause communication to come to standstill. World Wide Web.