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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search World Wide Web The Web's historic logo designed by Robert Cailliau Inventor Tim Berners-Lee [1] Company CERN Availability Worldwide
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search World Wide Web The Web's historic logo designed by Robert Cailliau Inventor Tim Berners-Lee[1] Company CERN Availability Worldwide "WWW" redirects here. For other uses, see WWW (disambiguation). "The Web" redirects here. For other uses, see Web (disambiguation). Not to be confused with the Internet. The World Wide Web(abbreviated as WWWor W3[2]and commonly known as the Web) is a systemof interlinked hypertextdocuments accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pagesthat may contain text, images, videos, and other multimediaand navigatebetween them via hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, British engineer and computer scientistSir Tim Berners-Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium(W3C), wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.[1]At CERNin Geneva, Switzerland, Berners-Lee and Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliauproposed in 1990 to use hypertext "... to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will",[3]and they publicly introduced the project in December.[4] "The World-Wide Web was developed to be a pool of human knowledge, and human culture, which would allow collaborators in remote sites to share their ideas and all aspects of a common project."[5]