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History of WWW
The World Wide Web ("WWW") is a global information medium which users can
access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used
as a synonym for the Internet itself and often called "the Internet", but the Web is a
service that operates over the Internet, just as email (also e-mail) and Usenet also
do. The history of the Internet dates back significantly further than that of the
World Wide Web.
1980-1991 -: The development of the World Wide Web was initiated by Tim
Berners-Lee, an independent contractor at the European Organization for Nuclear
Research (CERN). In 1980, he build ENQUIRE, a personal database of people and
software models, and toyed with hypertexts. In 1984, when Berners-Lee returned
to CERN, he began working on the World Wide Web to create a large hypertext
database with typed links. Finally, in 1990, he developed all the tools necessary to
create the World Wide Web
