Describes the internet as a whole, millions of computers all over the world connected via phone lines and modems.

Originally developed by Brit Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while working in Geneva for CERN, he went on in 1990 to create the first WWW server, the first web browser (called WorldWideWeb), the URL addressing system and the HTML language. He now leads the World Wide Web consortium (W3C).

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