The www stands for World Wide Web, which is a system of interlinked, hypertext documents accessed through the internet. It was created in 1989 by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee and is now used by billions of people to access information, communicate, conduct business, and more. The Web uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) as the primary protocol for transmitting information, and this information is viewed using a web browser, like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.