The Inventor of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, is credited with inventing the World Wide Web (WWW) while working at CERN in 1989. His vision was to create a global hypertext system that would allow information sharing and collaboration across the internet.
Here are some key points about Tim Berners-Lee:
- He proposed the concept of hypertext, which allows users to navigate between interconnected documents via hyperlinks.
- The first web browser, WorldWideWeb, was developed by Berners-Lee in 1990.
- He also designed the first web server and wrote the first web page.
- His invention revolutionized communication, information access, and collaboration worldwide.
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