Here are the key points about the WWW in the early 1990s:
- Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1990 at CERN, releasing the first web browser (WorldWideWeb) and web server (CERN httpd) in 1990.
- The web used Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) for communication and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) for documents. This allowed documents to contain links to other documents on different servers across the internet.
- Early web browsers in the 1990s included ViolaWWW (1990), Mosaic (1993), and Netscape Navigator (1994). These made the web more accessible with graphical user interfaces.
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)