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  2. ENQUIRE - Wikipedia

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    ENQUIRE was a software project written in 1980 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, [2] which was the predecessor to the World Wide Web. [2] [3] [4] It was a simple hypertext program [4] that had some of the same ideas as the Web and the Semantic Web but was different in several important ways.

  3. Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

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    Tim Berners-Lee at the Home Office, London, on 11 March 2010 By 2010, he created data.gov.uk alongside Nigel Shadbolt . Commenting on the Ordnance Survey data in April 2010, Berners-Lee said: "The changes signal a wider cultural change in government based on an assumption that information should be in the public domain unless there is a good ...

  4. Hypertext - Wikipedia

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    In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, then a scientist at CERN, proposed and later prototyped a new hypertext project in response to a request for a simple, immediate, information-sharing facility, to be used among physicists working at CERN and other academic institutions. He called the project "WorldWideWeb".

  5. 'The web had failed instead of served humanity': Tim Berners ...

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    World wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was "devastated" by recent abuses of the web, in an interview with Vanity Fair. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who in 1989 invented the worldwide web, has ...

  6. HTML - Wikipedia

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    Tim Berners-Lee in April 2009. In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, a contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use and share documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based hypertext system. [4] Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and server software in late 1990.

  7. History of hypertext - Wikipedia

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    In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee created ENQUIRE, an early hypertext database system somewhat like a wiki. The early 1980s also saw a number of experimental hypertext and hypermedia programs, many of whose features and terminology were later integrated into the Web. Guide was the first significant hypertext system for personal computers.

  8. List of Internet pioneers - Wikipedia

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    Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee (born 1955) is a British physicist and computer scientist. [219] In 1980, while working at CERN, he proposed a project using hypertext to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers. [220] While there, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE. [221]

  9. Project Xanadu - Wikipedia

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    On the site, the creators claim that Tim Berners-Lee stole their idea, and that the World Wide Web is a "bizarre structure created by arbitrary initiatives of varied people and it has a terrible programming language" and that Web security is a "complex maze". They go on to say that Hypertext is designed to be paper, and that the World Wide Web ...