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Bookmark or Share- About The World Wide WebThe World Wide Web (known as "WWW', "Web" or "W3") is the universe of network-accessible information, the embodiment of human knowledge. The World Wide Web began as a networked information project at CERN, where Tim Berners-Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium [W3C], developed a vision of the project.
- World Wide Web - WikipediaThe World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. It allows documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ...
- History of the Web - World Wide Web FoundationTim’s original proposal. Image: CERN. By October of 1990, Tim had written the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today’s web (and which you may have seen appear on parts of your web browser): HTML: HyperText Markup Language. The markup (formatting) language for the web. URI: Uniform Resource Identifier.
- The birth of the Web | CERNTim 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.
- The World Wide Web (article) | Web protocols | Khan AcademyThe Web is a massive network of webpages, programs, and files that are accessible via URLs. We call it a web because of its vast interconnectedness. Starting from one URL, such as http://wikipedia.org, we can follow links to eventually reach millions of webpages from across the globe. Here's a tiny portion of that web from 2004:
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