World Wide Web

The World Wide Web ("WWW" or "The Web") is the part of the Internet that contains websites and webpages. It was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Sir Tim Berners-Lee created a new markup language called HTML. Websites are composed of pages linked by hypertext links that are written in HTML.

"The Web" redirects here. For other uses, see Web (disambiguation).

The software to see the World Wide Web is called a web browser. One also needs a connection to the Internet.

Many companies nowadays offer website hosting allowing one to make websites that can be displayed on the World Wide Web, including a custom domain (www.stuff.com) site.

Invention of WWW

While working at CERN in 1989, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web.[1] He was a computer scientist from England. Tim Berners-Lee was a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at Oxford University[2] and a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Other websites

References
  1. "A short history of the Web". CERN. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  2. "Tim Berners-Lee". www.w3.org. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
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