Who invented the World Wide Web (WWW)?
2022
Who invented the World Wide Web (WWW)?
Answer: D. Tim Berners-Lee — ConceptAn information system can be identified by its defining architecture and by the person who designed and implemented that architecture. The World Wide…
- A.
Alan Turing
- B.
Steve Jobs
- C.
Bill Gates
- D.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Correct answer: D
Concept
An information system can be identified by its defining architecture and by the person who designed and implemented that architecture.
The World Wide Web is a hypertext system that links documents through URLs and transfers them using HTTP over the Internet.
Application
At CERN, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a linked hypertext information system in 1989. He then implemented the essential Web technologies and built the first Web server and browser.
Contrast
Alan Turing is associated with theoretical computation and wartime cryptanalysis.
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple and led work on personal-computing and consumer-electronics products.
Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft and led operating-system and productivity-software businesses.
Tim Berners-Lee designed and implemented the system that became the World Wide Web.
Cross-check
CERN records identify Berners-Lee as the Web inventor and date his first proposal to March 1989, matching both the technology and the historical attribution in the question.
Therefore, the inventor of the World Wide Web is Tim Berners-Lee.