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  2. History of the World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The World Wide Web ("WWW", "W3" or simply "the Web") is a global information medium that users can access via computers connected to the Internet. The term is often mistakenly used as a synonym for the Internet, but the Web is a service that operates over the Internet, just as email and Usenet do.

  3. History of the Internet - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Internet has its origin in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and ...

  4. Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

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    University of Southampton. Website. w3.org /People /Berners-Lee. Signature. Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955), [1] also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP.

  5. List of websites founded before 1995 - Wikipedia

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    List of websites founded before 1995. The first website was created in August 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, a European nuclear research agency. Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb browser became publicly available the same month. By the end of 1992, there were ten websites. [1] The World Wide Web began to enter everyday use in 1993, helping to grow ...

  6. Milestones: A look back at AOL's 35 year history as an ...

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    1995: Company reaches one million users. 1996 : America Online ditches its original pay-per-hour pay system in favor of a flat, $19.95 monthly fee, effectively beginning the modern internet era .

  7. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    After many changes to the backend search engine, MSN would start developing in-house search technology in 2005, and later change its name to Bing in June 2009. August: New web search engine: Direct Hit Technologies releases their popularity search engine in partnership with HotBot, providing more relevant results based on prior user search ...

  8. Grace Hopper - Wikipedia

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    Grace Brewster Hopper (née Murray; December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and United States Navy rear admiral. [1] She was a pioneer of computer programming. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC ...

  9. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    by Tim Berners-Lee. Organization. CERN. A web page from Wikipedia displayed in Google Chrome. The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. [1]