The World Wide Web was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while he was working at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He wrote the first proposal for the Web in March 1989 and developed the first web browser and server by the end of 1990. The Web was originally created to facilitate automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes worldwide
. Berners-Lee also invented key technologies that underpin the Web, including the HTML markup language, the URL system, and the HTTP protocol. He published the first website in December 1990, which described the project and how to create web pages. His work laid the foundation for the Web's rapid expansion and widespread use after CERN made the technology available royalty-free in 1993
. In summary, Tim Berners-Lee is credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
