Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web it seems. I just learned his name in reading an article on Edward Snowden. I've always associated Marc Andreessen of Netscape with the beginning of the World Wide Web, but I guess he just brought it into our living rooms. It was there before he made it accessible. The invention was 25 years ago this week.
Addendum 3/13/2014: The http technology that Berners-Lee made was at first owned by an organization called CERN which kept it to itself from 1989 to 1993. It then released it to the public. The Mosaic browser then appeared.
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