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History of WWW

Ideas for the World Wide Web date back to as early as

1946 when Murray Leinster wrote a short story which

described how computers (that he referred to as 'Logics') lived
in every

home, with

each one
having access

to a central
device where

they could
retrieve

information.

Although the
story does have several differences to the way the web works

today, it does capture the idea of a huge information network
available to everyone in their homes.

The real vision and execution for the World Wide Web

didn't come about until around 40 years later in 1980 when an

English chap by the name of Tim Berners Lee was working
on a project known as 'Enquire'. Enquire was a simple

database of people and software who were working at the
same place as Berners Lee. It was during this project that he

experimented with hypertext. Hypertext is text that can be
displayed on devices which utilize hyperlinks. The Berners

Lee Enquire system used hyperlinks on each page of the

database, each page referencing other relevant pages within
the system.