Who invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989?

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Answer 1

The correct answer is Tim Berners-Lee.

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 while working at CERN.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist.

Important Points

Robert E. Kahn	He is an American electrical engineer. He develops the TCP/IP protocols for connecting diverse computers. He is known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet”.
Linus Torvalds	He is an American-Finnish software engineer. He is a developer of the Linux kernel. He is known for Linux, ‎Git‎, ‎Subsurface.
Ted Nelson	He is an American scientist in information technology. He coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963.

Key Points

By October of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee had written the three fundamental technologies that remain the foundation of today’s web:
- HTML: HyperText Markup Language. The markup (formatting) language for the web.
- URI: Uniform Resource Identifier. It is an “address” that is unique and used to identify each resource on the web. It is also commonly called a URL.
- HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Allows for the retrieval of linked resources from across the web.