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What does WWW stand for?
Answer
World Wide Web
WWW stands for 'World Wide Web,' the system for sharing and accessing information across interconnected computers via the internet. Invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in 1989, the Web built upon existing internet infrastructure to create a user-friendly way to navigate and share documents. Berners-Lee's genius was developing HTTP (the protocol), HTML (markup language), and the concept of URLs (web addresses), which together made the internet accessible to non-technical users.
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Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 at CERN and deliberately made it freely available without patenting it.
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