PRESENTER: Often when you visit a website, the website address will start with three small letters, www. The www stands for world wide web but have you ever thought, what is the world wide web?

Berners-Lee came up with the idea for what he initially called “Mesh” while working at Europe’s physics research center CERN, calling it the World Wide Web in 1990. When asked who had the ...

Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, now wants to save it. The computer scientist who wrote the blueprint for what would become the World Wide Web 28 years ago today is alarmed at ...

The seeds of the Web were planted much earlier than 1991. Amazingly, a very early version of the World Wide Web was floating around in at least one person's head way back during World War II.

The actual first logo for the World Wide Web, created by the developer of its first web browser. Robert Cailliau/Wikimedia Commons The Mesh. Mine of Information. The Information Mine. The ...

The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments ...

That engineer was Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and his proposal was the beginning of the World Wide Web. To mark the 30th anniversary of Berners-Lee’s pitch, Google created a doodle for its homepage.

But 30 years ago this week, that all changed. On April 30, 1993, something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain. The web made it simple for anyone to navigate the internet.