The World Wide Web (WWW) was invented by whom?

AAlan Turing

BSteve Jobs

CBill Gates

DTim Berners-Lee ✓ Correct

Correct answer: (D) Tim Berners-Lee

Explanation

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN.

Alan Turing was a pioneer of computing theory, not the inventor of the Web.

Steve Jobs co-founded Apple and did not create the World Wide Web.

Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft and is unconnected to inventing the Web.

Berners-Lee also devised HTML, HTTP and the first web browser.

The Web runs on top of the internet but is not the same thing.

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