After TCP/IP provided a standardized protocol for computers to communicate, {\it HyperText Markup Language} (HTML) provided a language to describe documents that can be transported via {\it HyperText Transfer Protocol} (HTTP). The beauty of these documents was that they could link to one another \cite[1]{pioneersberners}.


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Neither the ARPANET nor the Internet and its constituent networks were purpose-built for particular applications. This design philosophy has allowed these systems to support a broad array of new techniques and applications including packetized voice, streaming video and, of course, the myriad applications built atop the World Wide Web, under the leadership of Tim Berners-Lee, first at CERN, the European particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, now at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge \cite[1]{cerf}.
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Tim Berners-Lee had been contracted to work at CERN, a particle physics lab. There he had created a program that used HyperText ``for his personal use to help him remember connections between various people and projects at the lab'' \cite[1]{pioneersberners}.


A few years later, Tim took two {\it existing} technologies, HyperText and TCP/IP, and combined them to provide a way for people to share documents that can link to one another. He built what we know today as a web browser and a web server, which communicate via HTTP, which is the standard protocol for the Web today. This technology enabled people to share documents that could connect to one other. The first web browser he called ``WorldWideWeb'' \cite[1]{pioneersberners}.


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