KOKO Knows: The World Wide Web Is 10298 Days Old Today

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. The first computer-to-computer link was made on ARPANET in 1969 — which developed into the Internet.The World Wide Web though is different from the Internet. They are miles apart actually. The internet is a network of computers, while the World Wide Web is a bridge for accessing and sharing information across it. The internet started way longer than the world wide web.Photo Credit: Getty

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