MODEL RELEASED. World Wide Web use. Elderly woman at a computer screen accesses a page from the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) on the internet. The Web is a global network connecting thousands of host computers for the free exchange of information. Information on the page is stored in the form of hypertext documents - text documents which have other data (such as pictures or links to other host sites) embedded in them. Web data are read using a browser program to automatically connect the user to other host computers. Browsers make the web easy to use even for someone with no computer knowledge.