Web Explained

Web most often refers to:

• Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal
• World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system

Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to:

Computing

• WEB, a literate programming system created by Donald Knuth
• GNOME Web, a Web browser
• Web.com, a web-design company
• Webs (web hosting), a Web hosting and website building service
• Web hosting service

Engineering

• Web (manufacturing), continuous sheets of material passed over rollers
  • Web, a roll of paper in offset printing
• Web, the vertical element of an I-beam or a rail profile
• Web, the interior beams of a truss

Films

• Web (2013 film), a documentary
• Webs (film), a 2003 science-fiction movie
• The Web (film), a 1947 film noir
• Charlotte's Web (2006 film)

Literature

• Web (comics), an MLJ comicbook character (created 1942)
• Web (novel), by John Wyndham (1979)
• The Web (series), a science fiction series (1997–1999)
• World English Bible, a public-domain Bible translation (2000)
• Charlotte's Web, a children's novel by E. B. White (1952)

Mathematics

• Web (differential geometry), a type of set allowing an intrinsic Riemannian-geometry characterisation of the additive separation of variables in the Hamilton–Jacobi equation
• Web, a linear system of divisors of dimension 3

Music

• Web Entertainment, a record label
• Web (album), a 1995 album by Bill Laswell and Terre Thaemlitz
• "The Web", a song by Marillion from Script for a Jester's Tear
• "The Web", a song by Neurosis from Souls at Zero
• "The Web", a song by Zao from The Crimson Corridor
• The Web (band), a British jazz/blues band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s

People

• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), American sociologist and civil rights activist
• Warren Edward Buffett (born 1930), American business magnate and investor

Radio

• WEBS (AM), a radio station licensed to Calhoun, Georgia, United States
• West End Broadcast (WeB FM), a radio station in Newcastle, England, that was a forerunner of NE1fm

Television

• The Web (1950 TV series), a 1950–1954 American mystery/suspense anthology television series that was broadcast on CBS
• The Web (1957 TV series), an American mystery/suspense anthology television series, similar to the 1950–1954 series, that aired on NBC in 1957 as a summer replacement series
• W.E.B., a 1978 American TV series
• The Web, a fictional region of space in the ReBoot television series (and game)
• "Web", an episode of season 7 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• "The Web", an episode of Blake's 7
• "The Web", an episode of The Amazing World of Gumball

Other uses

• West-East Bag, an international women artists network active from 1971 to 1973

See also

• Cobweb (disambiguation)
• Spider Web (disambiguation)
• Webb (disambiguation)
• Webbing, a strong woven fabric
• Interdigital webbing, the presence of membranes of skin between the digits
  • Webbed toes
• Webbed, a 2021 video game
• Webby (disambiguation)
• WWW (disambiguation)