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World Wide Web Day is observed every year on 1 August to mark the creation of the World Wide Web.
The Web was proposed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while he was working at CERN in Switzerland.
The World Wide Web is the system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed over the internet, and is distinct from the internet itself.
CERN placed the World Wide Web software in the public domain in 1993, allowing it to spread without licence fees.
Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1994 to develop open web standards.
The internet is the physical and logical network — the cables, routers and protocols such as TCP/IP that allow computers anywhere to exchange data. The World Wide Web is one service running on top of that network: a system of documents written in HTML, identified by URLs and retrieved using HTTP, linked to one another by hypertext. Email, file transfer and many other services also run on the internet without being part of the Web. The internet predates the Web by two decades.
Simple Analogy: The internet is the road network; the Web is one particular kind of traffic that travels on it.
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The system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed over the internet using HTTP.
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva, where the Web was invented.
The World Wide Web Consortium, founded by Tim Berners-Lee in 1994 to develop open web standards.
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