Lesson
1: The Big Picture or Why the World Wide
Web Waited until the 1990s
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The World Wide Web is an interactive, graphical presentation of information on the Internet. It was developed in Switzerland by Tim Berners-Lee of the European Particle Physics Laboratory. He launched the Web in 1989 as a communication method for scientists in an organization called CERN (Conseil Europeen pour Rechere Nucleaire).
The World Wide Web is the culmination of computer and Internet technologies that took place over the previous 50 years. The explosion of the Web had to wait until the 1990s. Below is a diagram showing the 5 steps of technology that led to the World Wide Web.
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