Welcome to the World-Wide Web

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What do Internet gurus, librarians, students, captains of private enterprise, and Al Gore all have in common? They're all talking about the World-Wide Web. Everyone is talking about it, and whether you call it WWW, W or just the Web, it is the most flexible and intuitive way to navigate the Information Superhighway.

The World-Wide Web (WWW) originated at the European Center for Particle Physics (CERN) laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. It was conceived in 1989 as a hypertext-based system to facilitate worldwide information sharing among the high-energy physics community.(1)

The idea behind the WW is that everyone, irrespective of computer platform (DOS, Macintosh, Unix, …