Technology

What year was the World Wide Web invented?

1989

Background

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at the CERN research center in Switzerland. He wanted to help scientists share documents more easily. The first website went live in 1991. The internet already existed before that. The Web was what made it useful for everyone.

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