Tim Berners-Lee invented the first browser at CERN, to enable researchers to share their research with eachother.
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CERN Physicist Tim Berners-Lee needed “a pool of information which could grow and evolve with the organisation and the projects it describes.”
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Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, HTTP, and wrote the first HTML page.
Berners-Lee presented the WWW at the IETF conference in a small BoF session, which is mentioned in the proceedings.
NCSA creates the free Mosaic" browser, and adds bookmarks, images, and a better UI.
The number of domains increased as the internet started being used by commerce.
Berners-Lee founds the W3C to standardize HTML for all browsers to follow.
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