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The World Wide Web Foundation, also known as the Web Foundation, was a US-based international nonprofit organization advocating for a free and open web for everyone. It was cofounded by Tim Berners-Lee , the inventor of the World Wide Web , and Rosemary Leith . [ 2 ]
The corridor where the World Wide Web was born, on the ground floor of building No. 1 at CERN Where the WEB was born While working at CERN , Tim Berners-Lee became frustrated with the inefficiencies and difficulties posed by finding information stored on different computers. [ 13 ]
Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web (Ferguson's Career Biographies), Melissa Stewart (Ferguson Publishing Company, 2001), ISBN 0-89434-367-X children's biography; How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web, Robert Cailliau, James Gillies, R. Cailliau (Oxford University Press, 2000), ISBN 0-19-286207-3
The web as we know it was famously invented by Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN, but it wasn't until a few years later -- 1993 to be precise -- that it'd truly be set free. On April 30 of ...
A copy of the first webpage, created by Berners-Lee, is still published on the World Wide Web Consortium's website as a historical document. [50] The first website was activated in 1991. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the World Wide Web would be free to anyone. It became the dominant way through which most users interact with the Internet.
The server was presented on the Hypertext 91 conference in San Antonio and was part of the CERN Program Library (CERNLIB). [4] [7] Later versions of the server are based on the libwww library. [2] The development of CERN httpd was later taken over by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), with the last release being version 3.0A of 15 July 1996. [1]
HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, where hypertext documents include hyperlinks to other resources that the user can easily access, for example by a mouse click or by tapping the screen in a web browser.
He designed the historical logo of the WWW, organized the first International World Wide Web Conference at CERN in 1994 [2] and helped transfer Web development from CERN to the global Web consortium in 1995. [3] He is listed as co-author of How the Web Was Born by James Gillies, the first book-length account of the origins of the World Wide Web.