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The World Wide Web

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The World Wide Web

When you go to a page on the Internet, you will see the letters ‘www’. These stand for World Wide Web.

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The World Wide Web

  • The World Wide Web is all the web pages that can be accessed on the Internet.
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Invention of the World Wide Web

  • The World Wide Web was created in 1989.
  • The World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee.
    • Tim Berners-Lee is an English computer scientist.

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