World Wide Web
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The World Wide Web is a global interconnected information system that enables content sharing over the Internet. It facilitates access to documents and other web resources according to specific rules
The world’s first web server, exhibited at CERN in Geneva.
The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge web server, a computer designed for rack mounting
Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website; here, Dell servers are installed together to be used for the Wikimedia Foundation.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fell
World Wide Web
…and other web resources according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The Web was invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN in 1989 and opened to the public in 1993. It was conceived as a "universal linked information system". Documents and other media content…
Berners-Lee in 2025
Berners-Lee, 2005
This NeXT Computer was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first web server.
Tim Berners-Lee at the Home Office, London, on 11 March 2010