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On August 7th, 1991, the Internet world was changed as the World Wide Web became publicly available.

The web was intended for sharing information between researchers but it has become far more powerful and sophisticated than anyone could have ever dreamed.

The ITKE team will award 100 Knowledge Points to anyone who can tell us the ‘inventor’ of the World Wide Web.

(Source: Wired.com)

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