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World Wide Web

The world wide web is the universe of network- accessible information and the embodiment of human knowledge. Invented by [|Tim Berners-Lee], an Oxford graduate, in 1989. The World Wide Web (www) is a computer network consisting of a collection of internet sites that offer text, graphics, sound and animation resources through the hypertext transfer protocol. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists working in different universities and institutes all over the world.The WWW was initially a project for CERN to show how information could be transferred easily over the [|Internet] by using hypertext, the now familiar point-and-click system of navigating through information. [|Info.cern.ch]was the first web site and web server ran on the world wide web. The first actual web address ran was [], which was information regarding the project. Here, vistors could learn about hypertext, technical details for creating a webpage, and how to properly search the web for information.

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