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Chapter 15 Using Internet Explorer 7
Origins and Development of the
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (also called WWW or the Web) has worked its way into virtually
every aspect of modern life. That’s an astounding fact, considering that just a short 20 years
ago, it was nothing more than an idea living inside a computer scientist’s head. That scientist
was Tim Berners-Lee. While working at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (or
CERN, from its original name, Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), Berners-Lee
needed to devise a way in which scientific data could easily be shared simultaneously with
physicists around the world. Along ...