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History of WWW…
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989,
while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to
meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and
institutes around the world.
On 6 August 1991, exactly twenty years ago, the World Wide Web became publicly
available. Its creator, the now internationally known Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short
summary of the project on the alt. hypertext newsgroup and gave birth to a new technology
which would fundamentally change the world as we knew it.
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