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What year was the World Wide Web born?

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Question: What year was the World Wide Web born?
The Web is a phenomenon that has revolutionized the world. What year was the World wide Web born?
Answer: The official answer to when the World Wide Web was born is 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee put together a simple way to organize documents across computers with a simple markup language called HTML.

Read more about Tim Berners-Lee: How did the Web get started? Find out the history of the Web, or in this official profile of Tim Berners-Lee.

Read a timeline of the World Wide Web: Web History Highlights.

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