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Limits RegistryTim Berners-Lee, working at CERN, proposed the World Wide Web in a March 1989 memo and built the first web browser and web server in 1990, making the first website publicly available in 1991 — the invention that transformed the internet from a specialist research network into the public information system it is today.
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Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN, proposed the World Wide Web in a March 1989 memo and built the first web browser and web server in 1990, making the first website publicly available in 1991 — the invention that transformed the internet from a specialist research network into the public information system it is today.
The year the World Wide Web — a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessible via the internet — was proposed and first implemented.
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Limits Registry. LR-INVENTION-WORLD-WIDE-WEB. Invention of the World Wide Web. 2026.