| World Wide Web
The need for a fast and simple way to share data and information
among researchers at different laboratories around the
world led to the creation of a system called the World
Wide Web (WWW) at CERN during the early 1990’s.
This system is based on “hypertext,” a way
of linking related information stored on different computers.
The introduction of the WWW allowed for the Internet,
which had its birth in the United States at the end of
the 1960’s, to become accessible to the general
public and no longer limited to use in university and
private environs.
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