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World Wide Web

audiovisual digital digital media platform core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Tim Berners-Lee, creator
  • CERN, institutional origin context

Canon Rationale

A core digital-history and information-infrastructure record, included as a bounded source-study unit around Berners-Lee's proposal, the first web system, and W3C/CERN historical documentation rather than as open-ended web use.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 61.

Evidence

  • institutional list: W3C, 'A Little History of the World Wide Web'.
  • institutional list: CERN, 'The birth of the Web'.

Audit Flags

access preservation required, epistemic status required

Completion unit: read Tim Berners-Lee’s 1989 web proposal and a short W3C/CERN web-history unit; do not treat open-ended web browsing as completion.

Reading Lists