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Which British scientist invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN?

  • ✓ Tim Berners-Lee Your answer
  • B Alan Turing
  • C Charles Babbage
  • D Stephen Hawking

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Tim Berners-Lee, born in London, proposed the system of linked web pages in 1989 while working at CERN in Switzerland. The first website went online in 1991.

Source: CERN: A short history of the Web; Encyclopaedia Britannica

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