Your birth year
2006
World Wide Web
1989Internet
World Wide Web is 17 years older than you
It's from 1989, before you were born.
- Inventor
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Inventor age
- 34
- Field
- Internet
About
As of 2026, it's 37 years old.
The World Wide Web was proposed in 1989, turning the internet into a linked information system ordinary people could eventually browse.
It is one of the clearest "changed our world" entries: news, shopping, publishing, software, work, and social life all moved through it.
World Wide Web through the years
1989
1989
Web proposal written
Berners-Lee proposed a linked information system at CERN.
1991
1991
First website went online
The web began moving from idea to public infrastructure.
You were born — 2006
