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Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web at CERN to improve how researchers stored, updated, found, and shared information.
The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee while he worked at CERN. In 1989, he proposed a “universal linked information system” to solve CERN’s practical problem of storing, updating, and finding documents and distributing them to collaborators outside the lab. Rather than using rigid tree structures or keyword-tagging approaches, his design adopted hypertext linking concepts and aimed to support links across multiple databases on independent computers, with access for many users from anywhere on the Internet. Berners-Lee implemented a working system by the end of 1990, including the first web browser (WorldWideWeb) and an HTTP server running at CERN. He also defined early versions of the HTTP protocol and the basic URL syntax, with HTML emerging as the primary document format. The technology was released outside CERN to other research institutions in 1991 and then made available to the whole Internet in August 1991. CERN later released the web protocol and code royalty-free in April 1993, helping the Web spread rapidly beyond academia.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web at CERN to improve how researchers stored, updated, found, and shared information.
His hypertext-based design supported linking across independent computers and databases, enabling decentralized access for many users.
A working system (browser and HTTP server) was implemented by 1990, released to research institutions in 1991, and made broadly available to the Internet in 1991; CERN later made the code royalty-free in 1993.
The European particle physics laboratory where Tim Berners-Lee developed the original Web system.
A method of linking documents so users can navigate by following embedded hyperlinks.
The application-layer protocol used to transfer web resources between clients (browsers) and servers.
A character string that identifies and locates a specific web resource on the Internet.
The standard markup language used to create and structure web pages and web applications.
The first web browser created by Tim Berners-Lee as part of the original Web project at CERN.
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