Where did the world wide web originate?

Answer 1

This is hard to pin down. Alot of information on the web tries to give credit to Europe in the late 80s. I have been taught in my network courses that it was the U.S. around 1957. Originally networks to decentralize military computers. Then colleges and university's developed ever increasing networks. www is content from everywhere, its the network that makes it possible.

The World Wide Web could be said to have originated in England, thanks to a relatively unknown chap named Tim Berners-Lee. A software consultant at the European organisation for Nuclear Research, Berners-Lee presented his supervisor with a proposal in 1989 outlining ideas for an electronic document exchange programme. This proposal would enable scientific papers to be read on a variety of otherwise incompatible computer systems. Initially, his superiors were not interested, but Berners-Lee persisted. When he was able to achieve the first successful communication between an HTP client and a server using the internet (which is actually different to the world wide web) on 25 December 1990 that he finally gained the interest, and the support, to see his proposal put into action.

Answer 2

The internet, as we know it today, was initiated by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, whilst he was based at CERN in Switzerland (now site of the Large Hadron Collider). He envisioned it as a way for scientists to communicate their data between computers. However, computers have been talking to each other since the late 60's, but it was Sir Tim who advocated it going worldwide.