The web, the part of the Internet that provides users with graphics, audio and video, was first developed in 1990 by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (see photo), who wrote the web software at the CERN physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.

The web became part of the Internet in 1991, and had played a major role in the growing popularity of the international computer network, making information more accessible to the users via multi-media interfaces.