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World Wide Web

Also Known As WWW
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The World Wide Web is a system for sharing and linking documents over the internet, proposed by Tim Berners Lee at CERN in 1989 and made real in 1990 and 1991 through the first web browser, the first web server, and the HTTP protocol and HTML markup language he defined for them. Unlike earlier proprietary online information systems, the web was released royalty free and open to anyone, a decision credited with much of its rapid worldwide adoption through the 1990s.

Facts
Year
1991 2
Berners Lee proposed the system in 1989 and made it publicly available in 1991; both years appear in accounts, with 1991 marking the point it became reachable outside CERN.
Significance
An open, royalty free system for linking documents over the internet, credited with driving the internet's rapid worldwide adoption through the 1990s. 2
Status
Status
Active / In Use 1
FAQs

Is the World Wide Web the same thing as the internet?

No, the web is one application carried by the internet.

No. The web is one application carried by the internet, not the network itself. Other applications carried by the internet include e-mail, DNS and SSH.
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Associated With

Client-Server Model, Concepts
The Internet, Systems

The web is a system of linked documents that runs on top of the internet's own TCP IP infrastructure rather than being a separate network of its own.

Source ACM A.M. Turing Award Citations

In Field

Computer Networking, Fields
Source ACM A.M. Turing Award Citations

Invented By

Tim Berners-Lee, Pioneers
Source ACM A.M. Turing Award Citations

Licensed Under

Public-Domain Software, Concepts
Source Wikipedia: World Wide Web
In the Other Atlases

Origin Of

World Wide Web Enters the Public Domain

Also in Film and Media Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: World Wide Web
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Infobox, status: Active
  • Licensed Under: Public-Domain Software, Infobox: license
    Public domain (Since April 1993)
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2. ACM A.M. Turing Award Citations
Association for Computing MachineryBerners-Lee citationView the Source
Wikidata: World Wide Web
Wikidata Q466, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)View the Source
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC): World-Wide Web
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)In Group: Internet Application Protocols, Definition
Quote, In Group: Internet Application Protocols, Definition
The web is one application carried by the Internet
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