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   Why did Tim Berners-Lee create the World Wide Web?

   • The basic idea of the WWW was to merge the evolving technologies of computers, data networks and hypertext into a powerful and easy to use global information system. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web in March 1989 and his second proposal in May 1990.

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   Who created Wikipedia?

   • Wikipedia was initially conceived as a feeder project for the Wales-founded Nupedia, an earlier project to produce a free online encyclopedia, volunteered by Bomis, a web-advertising firm owned by Jimmy Wales, Tim Shell and Michael E. Davis.

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   How old is the World Wide Web?

   • "Happy 30th birthday, World Wide Web. Inventor outlines plan to combat hacking, hate speech". USA Today. Archived from the original on 6 October 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2019. ^ Romano, Aja (12 March 2019). "The World Wide Web – not the Internet – turns 30 years old". Vox.com. Archived from the original on 12 March 2019. Retrieved 15 April 2022.

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   Who wrote the first web page?

   • Tim also wrote the first web page editor/browser (“WorldWideWeb.app”) and the first web server (“httpd“). By the end of 1990, the first web page was served on the open internet, and in 1991, people outside of CERN were invited to join this new web community.

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   The development of the World Wide Web led to many attempts to develop internet encyclopedia projects. An early proposal for an online encyclopedia was Interpedia in 1993 by Rick Gates ; [3] this project died before generating any encyclopedic content.

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   Latest news. The inventor of the World Wide Web and one of Time Magazine’s ‘100 Most Important People of the 20th Century’, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a scientist and academic whose visionary and innovative work has transformed almost every aspect of our lives. Having invented the Web in 1989 while working at CERN and subsequently working to.

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   Apr 26, 2024 · Tim Berners-Lee (born June 8, 1955, London, England) is a British computer scientist, generally credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web. In 2004, he was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize (€1 million) by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.

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   Image: © CERN. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. He was born in London, and his parents were early computer scientists, working on one of the earliest computers. Growing up, Sir Tim was interested in trains and had a model railway in his bedroom.

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   Tim 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.