The
World Wide Web
(abbreviated
as WWW
or
W3,
commonly
known as the
Web)
is a system of interlinked hypertext documents that are accessed via
the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may
contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate
between them via hyperlinks.
Tim
Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist and former CERN employee,
is considered the inventor of the Web. On March 12, 1989, he wrote a
proposal for what would eventually become the World Wide Web. The
1989 proposal was meant for a more effective CERN communication
system but Berners-Lee eventually realised the concept could be
implemented throughout the world. Berners-Lee and Belgian computer
scientist Robert Cailliau proposed in 1990 to use hypertext "to
link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in
which the user can browse at will", and Berners-Lee finished the
first website in December of that year. The first test was completed
around 20 December 1990 and Berners-Lee reported about the project on
the newsgroup alt.hypertext
on 7 August 1991.
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