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History of World Wide Web






                 British  computer  scientist

                   Tim  Berners  –  Lee  is  the

                   inventor of the Web.

                 In  1989  –  1990  he

                   introduces world wide web


                   at CERN in Switzerland.

                 The  World  Wide  Web  is

                   often  abbreviated  as  the

                   Web or WWW or W3.

                 Berners – Lee, in his book Weaving the web he

                   developed three essential technologies:

                   -  A  system  of  globally  unique  identifiers  for


                       resources  on  the  Web  and  elsewhere,  the

                       Universal  Document  Identifier  (UDI),  later

                       known as Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and

                       Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)

                   -  The  publishing  language  Hyper  Text  Markup

                       Language (HTML)

                   -  The Hyper Text Transfer Protocol(HTTP)


















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