The World Wide Web was invented by Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, an English computer scientist. He created it in 1989 while working at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory. Berners-Lee developed the first web browser and web server, and he also designed key components such as HTML, the URL system, and HTTP. His invention was aimed at enabling information sharing among scientists globally and later became the foundation of the modern internet as a global information system.
