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What year was the first version of the World Wide Web released?
Answer
1991
Tim Berners-Lee released the first public version of the World Wide Web to the internet in August 1991, though he had conceptualized and created it in 1989. The first website was created at CERN (the physics laboratory) and described how the World Wide Web worked, serving as both a demonstration and documentation. This pivotal release transformed the internet from a research network into a platform for global information sharing, laying the groundwork for the modern web.
💡 Did you know?
The first website at CERN explaining the Web still exists at info.cern.ch—you can visit the original site and its historical documentation.
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- 1989
- 1990
- 1992
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- internet
- web
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