The World Wide Web was invented by Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist, in 1989 while he was working at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva
. He proposed an information management system that merged computers, data networks, and hypertext into a global information system. Berners-Lee developed the first web browser, web server, and the fundamental protocols such as HTTP, HTML, and URL that underpin the Web
. His invention was aimed at enabling scientists to share information easily across different institutions worldwide
. The first website was published by Berners-Lee in December 1990, and the Web was made publicly available on the Internet in August 1991
