print email comment close Where the Web Was Born URL: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/About/Web-en.html Description: History of the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). "The basic idea of WWW was to merge the technologies of personal computers, computer networking and hypertext into a powerful and easy to use global information system." Discusses early Web pages, Web servers, browsers, how the Web is not identical to the Internet, and how the Web works. From CERN. Publisher: CERN Extra Keywords Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire LII Database Information: Record 22257 created by Jennifer English on 08/07/2006 Last modification on 03/29/2008 Published: 08/10/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22257