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World Wide Web (WWW) History

As popularly conceived, hypertext is a series of text chunks connected by links which offer the reader different pathways.

- Ted Nelson, Literary Machines.

In the 1960's, Ted Nelson popularized the hypertext concept, and Douglas Engelbart developed the first working systems. In the 1980's, the web as we know it was developed in Europe by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau, and then rapidly spread around the world over the Internet in the 1990's by Marc Andreessen and the NCSA team that developed the Mosaic and Netscape browsers. The following pages provide more information: