What does $W_{1}$ and $(W_{1},W_{2})$ mean under the context of Brownian motion $W_{t}$?

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As part of some practice questions for a course I'm taking, I was given the definition of a Brownian motion $W_{t}$ as a unique continous-time stochastic process satisfying:

  • $W_{0}=0$
  • The function $t \rightarrow W_{t}$ is almost surely everywhere continous.
  • The increments $W_{t_{1}} - W_{s_{1}}W_{t_{2}}-W_{s_{2}}$ are independent when $0 \leq s_{1} < t_{1} \leq s_{2}<t_{2}$
  • The increment $W_{t} - W_{s}$ has a $N(0, t-s)$ distribution for $0 \leq s < t$.

This seems to make sense and I did some further research into Brownian motions, however then I was asked what the distribution of $W_{1}$ and $(W_{1},W_{2})$ would be.

I don't really know what this means, as I don't know how to express either as any more than some function that is almost everywhere continuous.. it feels like my given definition isn't exactly enough to go off of...