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nov 26, 1989 - Y1 Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web

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In 1989 the world wide web was invented by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He was trying to find a new way for scientists to easily share the data from their experiments.

Hypertext and the internet already existed at this point but no one had thought of a way to use the internet to link one document directly to another.

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nov 26, 1989
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~ 36 years ago

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