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The Internet or simply the net is the name for the global communications network that links computers together on top of which the web lives.

Originally created in the 1960s, public Internet access became a reality in the late 1980s when internet service providers (ISPs) started to appear.

The World Wide Web or simply web is the name for the global information system that uses hypertext to link things (pages, images, etc) together on a web server and a web browser to read the information and traverse the links. This is colloquially referred to as "web surfing".

Created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (timbl) in the late 1980s at CERN, the W3C was created in 1994 to oversee the development of standards for the web.

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