2004-12-01: Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau's official proposal for the World Wide Web is dated November 12th, 1990. This is the first document that actually uses the term.

In 1989, Berners-Lee and Cailliau had separately presented ideas for a hypertext system for their employer, the CERN nuclear physics research facility in Switzerland.

In early 1991 Berners-Lee wrote the first web browser.

For more information, see who invented the World Wide Web, where was the World Wide Web invented and why was the World Wide Web invented?

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