Who invented the World Wide Web?

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

The first website at CERN - and in the world - was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer. The website described the basic features of the web; how to access other people's documents and how to set up your own server. The NeXT machine - the original web server - is still at CERN. As part of the project to restore the first website, in 2013 CERN reinstated the world's first website to its original address.

On 30 April 1993 CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain. CERN made the next release available with an open licence, as a more sure way to maximise its dissemination. Through these actions, making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish.

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Amy Caltrider Leach

The question was who invented the WWW not the internet. They are considered 2 different things. History of the Web – World Wide Web Foundation webfoundation.org/.../history-of-the-web/ World Wide Web Foundation Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. He was born in London, and his parents were early computer scientists, working on one of the earliest computers.

Robbo

Tim used to work at Plessey in Poole UK

rosemarymee

Lovely man who never took a penny for it. Gave the WWW freely to the world. He is now Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Noelito

Steve Cosentino, the Internet is NOT the World Wide Web

Andre White

And the world as we know it has NEVER been the same since!

arlene

Kath Thomson, there was internet before WWW

erik hughes

I've been on it since 1995, and my first Username was "Morpheus", 4 years before anybody had heard of "The Matrix" (named myself after the Greek God, the "shape-shifter" who appeared in dreams).