Excerpt from: http://www.w3.org/ :
The World Wide Web is the universe of network-accessible
information.
Also, http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/WWW/
"About The World Wide Web"
The World Wide Web (W3) is the universe of
network-accessible information, an embodiment of human
knowledge. It is an initiative started at CERN, now with many
participants.
It has a body of software, and a set of protocols and
conventions. W3 uses hypertext and multimedia techniques
to make the web easy for anyone to roam, browse, and
contribute to.
I believe this is still an accurate assesment (sp?).
>I'm really asking about the evolution of the term - as other systems
>(ie other protocols, other GUIs to the net) evolve and integrate
>with the "Web" (it's inevitable), it seems that undoubtedly we'll use
>the term to refer to all of that.
Agreed.
Dan