World Wide Web Day is celebrated on 1 August to highlight the impact the Web has had on our society. The Web was created in 1989 to share information between educational facilities and universities across the world.
The day is observed to commemorate the World Wide Web (www) and its impact on the world. It was on August 1 in 1991 that Tim Berners-Lee posted a proposal for the World Wide Web on the alt.hypertext newsgroup; this day is, therefore, celebrated with great importance every year.
World Wide Web (also called WWW or W3) is a hypertext-based information system. Any word in a hypertext document can be specified as a pointer to a different hypertext document where more information pertaining to that word can be found. In a survey it's found that about 4.9 billion people use the internet around the world. That's 62% of the global population.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. On April 30, 1993, four years after publishing a proposal for "an idea of linked information systems," computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee released the source code for the world's first web browser and editor.
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