Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, in 1994. ©1994 CERN
On Aug 23, 1991, the World Wide Web – which had been created two years earlier by Tim Berners-Lee, a British fellow of the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) – was made public, and in theory, accessible to all.
From 1989 to 1991, the basic fundamentals of today's Web, in the shape of HTML pages composed of text, and sometimes, of images and links, all of which are made accessible via URL addresses, were developed under the leadership of Tim Berners-Lee and Belgian engineer Robert Cailliau.
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