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In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, working with Robert Cailliau at CERN, proposed a 'hypertext' system (HTML), which is the first start of the World Wide Web as we know it today. Later, Tim Berners-Lee successfully set up the first web server at info.cern.ch on December 25, 1990.
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The World Wide Web and the first web page was launched to the public on August 6, 1991. Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at the CERN European Partial Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Microsoft introduced Windows 3.1. It sold more than one million copies in the first two months of its release on April 6, 1992.
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IEEE introduced 802.11 the wireless (Wi-Fi) network standard in June 1997.
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Google was created and became the best world wide web search engine
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Computers continue to work, and the world doesn't come to an end on January 1, 2000, as some feared might happen because of the year 2000 bug.