World Wide Web

Hypertext system of documents linked by URLs and served over HTTP, built by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN from 1990.

Visit the project ↗ info.cern.ch

Part of threads Can readers write back? precedent; One-way or two-way links settles

builds on

• Hypertext concept 1965 [src]
• URI concept 1994 [src]

created by

• Robert Cailliau person b. 1947 [src]
• Tim Berners-Lee person b. 1955 [src]

proposed by

• Information Management: A Proposal writing 1989 [src]

subject of

• Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures writing 2000 [src]
• Long Live the Web writing 2010 [src]
• The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine writing 1998 [src]
• Weaving the Web writing 1999 [src]

influenced by

• HyperCard project 1987–2004 [?] [src]

built upon by

• Semantic Web concept 1998 [src]

has part

• HTML standard 1991 [src]
• HTTP standard 1991 [src]

responses

• Webmention standard 2017 [src]
  Adds notification of incoming links to the Web's one-way links.

[?] Unconfirmed

• influenced → HyperCard: Wikidata lists HyperCard as an influence on the Web; how direct that influence was is not established here.