<P> By Christmas 1990 , Berners - Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web : the HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) 0.9 , the HyperText Markup Language ( HTML ) , the first Web browser ( named WorldWideWeb , which was also a Web editor ) , the first HTTP server software ( later known as CERN httpd ) , the first web server ( http://info.cern.ch ) , and the first Web pages that described the project itself . The browser could access Usenet newsgroups and FTP files as well . However , it could run only on the NeXT ; Nicola Pellow therefore created a simple text browser , called the Line Mode Browser , that could run on almost any computer . To encourage use within CERN , Bernd Pollermann put the CERN telephone directory on the web -- previously users had to log onto the mainframe in order to look up phone numbers . </P>
<P> By Christmas 1990 , Berners - Lee had built all the tools necessary for a working Web : the HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) 0.9 , the HyperText Markup Language ( HTML ) , the first Web browser ( named WorldWideWeb , which was also a Web editor ) , the first HTTP server software ( later known as CERN httpd ) , the first web server ( http://info.cern.ch ) , and the first Web pages that described the project itself . The browser could access Usenet newsgroups and FTP files as well . However , it could run only on the NeXT ; Nicola Pellow therefore created a simple text browser , called the Line Mode Browser , that could run on almost any computer . To encourage use within CERN , Bernd Pollermann put the CERN telephone directory on the web -- previously users had to log onto the mainframe in order to look up phone numbers . </P>
when was the world wide web first used
when was the world wide web first used
1990
1990