What is meant by "web" in words "world wide web"? [closed]

Dictionaries provide a description of the word depending on the specific context.

Cambridge Dictionary, Collins Dictionary

Each word has its own meaning. And when you collect a few words in a heap, something new is formed. What is the special meaning for the "web"? Where can I find such information if dictionaries use only the word web paired with something?

I want to understand what the word "web" adds to the expression "world wide web". Does it really refer to spider webs, as suggested in comments?

If we take the phrase "world wide web" separately, there is no clear understanding that the web is a metaphor to "spider web" or has some other meaning.

Solution 1:

web NOUN
1 A network of fine threads constructed by a spider [...]
2 A complex system of interconnected elements.
[...]
Lexico

The use in "World Wide Web" is the second one. That extended meaning already existed before "the World Wide Web" was coined in 1991. The Oxford English Dictionary has an example from 1851:

the web of roads diverging from Savannah, Charleston and Nashville.