Who Invented The World Wide Web
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The World Wide Web (WWW) is a system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed over the internet. It was launched to the public in 1991 by the British scientist Tim Berners-Lee who, while working at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) proposed and built the first web browser as a part of an internal project within the organization.
Tim Berners-Lee was a leading innovator who had been working in the field of computing since 1979 and by 1989 was working as a software engineer at CERN. By 1989, he had organized the distribution of documents and information stored on multiple computers by using a hypertext system that he had developed. But the idea of accessing interlinked documents over the internet only really came about in 1989, when he proposed the ‘Linked Resources of the Virtual Library’.
This idea was a huge shift away from previous attempts to connect computers by networks as, instead of files being stored on a single computer and shared, they were instead created on multiple computers and combined together to create a single, unified system. Berners-Lee enlisted the help of Robert Cailliau, another CERN software engineer, in order to further develop the concept. The two worked together over the next few months in order to develop the program and officially published the first version of the World Wide Web, which they named WorldWideWeb, in the autumn of 1990.
By the summer of 1991, the first web server was running at CERN and was accessible to the public. Initially, the World Wide Web was aimed primarily at academics and computer professionals, but as the technology and popularity of the web grew, it quickly became available to anyone with a computer and access to the internet. Today, it is estimated that the World Wide Web consists of billions of documents and over 1.3 billion people are now connected to the internet worldwide.
Tim Berners-Lee has been widely praised for his invention of the World Wide Web and is often cited as one of the most influential people of the Information Age. In 2004, he was knighted for his services to the global development of the internet and in October 2014, he was awarded the 2014 Turing Award for his pioneering work.