The original World-Wide Web introduced the idea of URLs that point to HTML files, which are accessed remotely via the HTTP standard.

In fact, while the roots of the Internet can be traced to the 1950s, the development of the World Wide Web began on Aug. 1, 1990, meaning that the WWW turns 15 years old today.

Last week, the World Wide Web Foundation announced in an open letter (PDF) that it would be “winding down” and “closing [its] virtual doors” after 15 years of working to make the web safer ...

According to the World Wide Web Foundation, CERN never funded the project, although by September 1990, Sendall granted Berners-Lee time to work on it independently.