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## History
As with most revolutionary things the web didn't really appear out of nowhere, the ideas it employed were tried before, for example the [NABU](nabu.md) network did something similar even 10 years before the web; similarly [Usenet](usenet.md), the [BBS](bbs.md) networks and so on. However it wasn't until the end of 1980s that all the right ideas would come together under the right circumstances and had a bit of luck to get really popular.
World Wide Web was invented by an English computer scientist [Tim Berners-Lee](berners_lee.md). In 1980 he employed [hyperlinks](hyperlink.md) in a notebook program called ENQUIRE, he saw the idea was good. On March 12 1989 he was working at [CERN](cern.md) where he proposed a system called "web" that would use [hypertext](hypertext.md) to link documents (the term hypertext was already around). He also considered the name *Mesh* but settled on *World Wide Web* eventually. He started to implement the system with a few other people. At the end of 1990 they already had implemented the [HTTP](http.md) protocol for client-server communication, the [HTML](html.md), language for writing websites, the first web server and the first [web browser](browser.md) called *WorldWideWeb*. They set up the first website http://info.cern.ch that contained information about the project (still accessible as of writing this).
In 1993 CERN made the web [public domain](public_domain.md), free for anyone without any licensing requirements. The main reason was to gain advantage over competing systems such as [Gopher](gopher.md) that were [proprietary](proprietary.md). By 1994 there were over 500 web servers around the world. WWW Consortium ([W3M](w3m.md)) was established to maintain standards for the web. A number of new browsers were written such as the text-only [Lynx](lynx.md), but the [proprietary](proprietary.md) [Netscape Navigator](netscape_navigator.md) would go to become the most popular one until [Micro$oft](microsoft)'s [Internet Explorer](internet_explorer.md) (see [browser wars](browser_wars.md)). In 1997 [Google](google.md) search engine appeared, as well as [CSS](css.md). There was a economic bubble connected to the explosion of the Web called the [dot-comm boom](dot_com_boom.md).
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- [Dork Web/Smol Internet](smol_internet.md)
- [teletext](teletext.md)
- [minitel](minitel.md)
- [NABU](nabu.md)
- [WAP](wap.md)
- [Usenet](usenet.md)
- [TOR](tor.md)
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- [Internet](internet.md)
- [Kwangmyong](kwangmyong.md)
- [cyberspace](cyberspace.md)
- [SNet](snet.md)
- [how to make a website](how_to.md)