means A network of interconnected things — most commonly the spun trap of a spider, or the global system of linked documents and sites accessed over the internet.

from From Old English 'webb,' meaning a woven fabric, from a Germanic root tied to weaving (a cousin of the verb 'to weave' and of words like 'weft'). For centuries it meant any woven cloth, then narrowed to the spider's silken net. The computing sense arrived in 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee imagined documents linked like threads and called it the World Wide Web — a deliberate nod to that ancient image of strands crossing strands.