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Tim Berners-Lee's 1989 invention that made the internet accessible to everyone
Switzerland ๐ 1989 Internet & Networking
Key Facts
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Invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989; first website went live on 6 August 1991
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HTTP (protocol), HTML (language) and URL (addresses) form the three pillars of the web
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5.4 billion internet users worldwide (2024); 1.9 billion websites; 5 billion Google searches per day
๐ก Did you know? The web and the internet are different: the internet is the physical network; the web is the software layer on top
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Category
Internet & Networking
Country
๐ Switzerland
Year / Era
1989
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Tim Berners-Lee's 1989 invention that made the internet accessible to everyone