A report on Tim Berners-Lee and WorldWideWeb

This NeXT Computer was used by Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first web server

Tim Berners-Lee at the Home Office, London, on 11 March 2010

Berners-Lee speaking at the launch of the World Wide Web Foundation

Berners-Lee's tweet, "This is for everyone", at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London

Tim Berners-Lee at the Science Museum for the Web@30 event, March 2019

Some of the code still resides on Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT Computer in the CERN museum and has not been recovered due to the computer's status as a historical artifact.

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His software also functioned as an editor (called WorldWideWeb, running on the NeXTSTEP operating system), and the first Web server, CERN HTTPd (short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol daemon).

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World Wide Web

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Information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet.

A global map of the Web Index for countries in 2014

This NeXT Computer was used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN and became the world's first Web server.

The World Wide Web functions as an application layer protocol that is run "on top of" (figuratively) the Internet, helping to make it more functional. The advent of the Mosaic web browser helped to make the web much more usable, to include the display of images and moving images (GIFs).

$Graphic representation of a minute fraction of the WWW, demonstrating hyperlinks$

A screenshot of a web page on Wikimedia Commons

Dynamic web page: example of server-side scripting (PHP and MySQL)

The inside and front of a Dell PowerEdge web server, a computer designed for rack mounting

Multiple web servers may be used for a high traffic website; here, Dell servers are installed together to be used for the Wikimedia Foundation.

The results of a search for the term "lunar eclipse" in a web-based image search engine

It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989 and opened to the public in 1991.

In 1990, he developed the foundations for the Web: HTTP, HTML, the WorldWideWeb browser, a server, and the first website in order to manage documentation.

Traditional browser arrangement: UI features above page content

Web browser

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Application software for accessing the World Wide Web or a local website.

Nicola Pellow and Tim Berners-Lee in 1992

Marc Andreessen, lead developer of Mosaic and Navigator, in 2007

The first web browser, called WorldWideWeb, was created in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

This NeXTcube was used by Tim Berners-Lee as the first server on the World Wide Web.

Workstation computer that was developed, marketed, and sold by NeXT Inc. It was introduced in October 1988 as the company's first and flagship product, at a price of US$6500 1988, aimed at the higher-education market.

A NeXT Computer and its object-oriented development tools and libraries were used by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN to develop the world's first web server (CERN httpd) and web browser (WorldWideWeb).