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   Hypertext

   In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee created ENQUIRE, an early hypertext database system somewhat like a wiki.
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   World Wide Web

   Making it available on the Internet created what Tim Berners-Lee first called the WorldWideWeb (a term written in CamelCase, subsequently discarded) in 1990. ... In March 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a proposal which referenced ENQUIRE and described a more elaborate information management system.
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   History of the World Wide Web

   In 1980, the Englishman Tim Berners-Lee, an independent contractor at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Switzerland, built ENQUIRE, as a personal database of people and software models, but also as a way to play with hypertext; each new page of information in ENQUIRE had to be linked to an existing page. ... However, it could run only on the NeXT; Nicola Pellow therefore created a simple text browser that could run on almost any computer.
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   HTML

   In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was an independent contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use and share documents. ... After the HTML and HTML+ drafts expired in early 1994, the IETF created an HTML Working Group, which in 1995 completed "HTML 2.0", the first HTML specification intended to be treated as a standard against which future implementations should be based.
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   CERN

   The World Wide Web began as a CERN project called ENQUIRE, initiated by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau in 1989. ... A copy of the original first webpage, created by Berners-Lee, is still published on the World Wide Web Consortium website as a historical document.
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   Enquire Within Upon Everything

   The book was created with the intention of providing encyclopedic information on a topics as diverse as etiquette, parlour games, cake recipes, laundry tips, holiday preparation and first aid: ... Tim Berners-Lee apparently named his precursor of the World Wide Web, ENQUIRE, after this work.
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   Project Xanadu

   At around this time, Tim Berners-Lee was developing the World Wide Web. ... ENQUIRE
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   Pallab Ghosh

   He has interviewed notable figures including first man on the moon Neil Armstrong, creator of the worldwide web Tim Berners Lee, and cosmologist Stephen Hawking.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Hypertext,
• World Wide Web,
• History of the World Wide Web,
• HTML,
• CERN,
• Enquire Within Upon Everything,
• Project Xanadu,
• Pallab Ghosh