http://www.knosso.com/AboutWWW/INTRO.HTML (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996) Introduction
About the WWW
The WorldWide Web began 1989 at
CERN,
the high-energy physics facility in Geneva,
Switzerland. It was originally conceived as a
system for keeping and accessing distributed
technical documentation. Since then, the Web has
grown exponentially to include thousands of
distributed servers all across the Internet,
delivering countless documents on a huge variety
of subjects.
The Web is at this point a communally agreed-upon
system of protocols and standards for allowing
hypertext linking across the Internet.
http://www.knosso.com/AboutWWW/INTRO.HTML (PC Press Internet CD, 03/1996)
How the WWW Works