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In 1989, Berners-Lee began work on the first World Wide

Web server at CERN. He called the server "httpd” and dubbed the

first client "WWW.” Originally, WWW was just a WYSIWYG hypertext

browser/editor that ran in the NeXTStep environment.

WWW is World Wide Web, also known as The Web. It provides space for

wide range of information like documents, content and videos. These URLs

or say unique addresses of the content, are stored in WWW server. Web

browser is a software used to access or request for information.

HISTORY OF WWW

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.

CERN is not an isolated laboratory,

but rather a focus for an extensive

community that includes more

than 10,000 scientists from over

100 countries. Although they

typically spend some time on the CERN site, the scientists usually work at

universities and national laboratories in their home countries. Good

contact is therefore essential.