The World Wide Web, WWW, W3 was created by Tim Berners-Lee
who was working at CERN at the time.
In 1989, Berners-Lee proposed a global hypertext project
which would become the World Wide Web. The WWW was created under
the pretense that many people would be able to work collaborately
by putting information on a web of hypertext documents. The WWW
would be put on servers and client software, called a browser,
would allow one to access the information stored on the server.
The software calls up the information by searching for a link's
URL(Uniform Resource Locator). It then uses HTTP (HyperText
Transfer Protocol) to get the document which is coded in HTML
(HyperText Markup Language).
First Web browsers:
The first browser was a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You
Get) hypertext browser/editor. The WWW and browser first ran on a
NeXt computer in 1990 at CERN and were made available on the
Internet in 1991.
The first browser with the point-and-click graphical user
interface was NCSA Mosaic (Feb 1993). Other GUI based browsers
came from the idea behind this one.
Some Internet timeline: