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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is an information system on top of the internet. It was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989 and is what most people mean when they say 'the internet'.

Invented: 1989, Tim Berners-Lee
First website: August 6, 1991

CONCEPTWorld Wide Web

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Invented: 1989, Tim Berners-Lee
First website: August 6, 1991

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What is the World Wide Web?

The web is not the internet. It is a specific system of hyperlinked documents on top of it.

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The evolution of the internet

The internet is older than the web. It began as a research project and became infrastructure without ever quite meaning to.

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HTTP, explained

HTTP is a request-response protocol. Everything else — REST, GraphQL, gRPC over HTTP — is a discipline on top of it.

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