When it was invented in 1991, the World Wide Web connected together an Internet that was overrun with many thousands of individual, fragmented digital documents. HTML, hypertext markup language ...

According to the World Wide Web Foundation, CERN never funded the project, although by September 1990, Sendall granted Berners-Lee time to work on it independently.

Google wasn't around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google's rules, and ...