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- World Wide Web
- A distributed system based on hypertext
links for finding and retrieving resources on the Internet. The World
Wide Web was originally developed at the CERN high-energy physics
laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. The first prototype was built by Tim
Berners-Lee in November 1990. In February 1993, Mosaic, the first
graphical (point-and-click) browser for the World Wide Web, was
released by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for
the UNIX-based X-Windows system. By September 1993, versions of Mosaic
were available free for Windows and the Macintosh. Mosaic's ease of use,
combined with the simple but powerful structure developed at CERN, led to
a rapid, widespread adoption of the World Wide Web by the academic and
research community already using the Internet. The commercial world
recognized the potential of this tool and over the last year or two, the
Internet has also been adopted as a communications framework for
businesses to reach their customers.
Standards for the World Wide Web are developed through the W3 Consortium.
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